Word: greed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Greed cuts both ways, of course. Six Labrador retriever breeders say they have filed a class action against the AKC and the Labrador Retriever Club Inc. for changing the breed standard to favor slimmer, longer-legged animals over the traditional stockier, shorter ones -- thereby devaluing the out-of-date model. And some owners of a relatively rare dog called the Havanese, which arrived in this country from Cuba in the mid-1970s, are actively seeking AKC recognition, despite worries by other owners that they are inviting overbreeding and genetic problems...
Seeing this was quite unexpected. At first, I felt a warm, squishy feeling of empathy and optimism. This could very well be the staging ground for a modernday Christmas miracle, I thought, in which the kindness of the human spirit will rise above all of the greed and callousness that seems to characterize the rest of the year...
...they had to do was call up their buddies in the real-estate industry to get their money," Lee said. "The real estate industry has stirred up a hornet's nest. Their greed and selfishness really blinded them to what they were doing...
Adam is proud to be one of the ones hiding behind the wall, dreaming of a cushy Fortune 500 job and the ultimate savory tofu. An unrepentant yuppie, Adam gives his analysis of the "Decade of Greed": "I don't think that greed is bad," he says, "Risk is bad, and the Eighties were really a misevaluation of what risk was... They were using the wrong paradigms. I don't think greed itself is bad. The maximization of value is ultimately what makes... society great...
...comes down to money and greed, pure and simple," says Paul Much, senior managing director of the firm Houlihan, Lokey, Howard & Zukin, which counsels investors on opportunities such as sports. "This is about who gets a bigger share of the pie." The owners have deluded themselves into thinking the players should happily assist them in that redistribution, which violates human nature as well as labor history. Leigh Steinberg, perhaps the most powerful individual agent in professional sports, with some 150 clients under contract, agrees, "These sports are showing an incredible amount of self- destruction. This is a golden opportunity squandered...