Word: greed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Donald Trump, Shearson Lehman and former Treasury Secretary William Simon, Myerson stands accused of swindling $3.5 million from clients and partners and faces as much as 20 years in prison. Said prosecutor Sean O'Shea after the initial indictment last year: "We have here an unprecedented pattern of greed and dishonesty by a lawyer at the top of his profession...
...tables are indeed turned, but in the process, the authors sacrifice objectivity. Every detail in this book is cast against a negative backdrop, often one of racial bias and greed...
Auerbach is white greed personified, the evil owner forcing players to accept unfair contracts, forcing Black players to take even less, always reserving a few spots on the roster for white players instead of Blacks, perennially searching for the great white hope that will save the franchise...
...charges of fraud have struck an industry already reeling from allegations of deception, greed and insufficient attention to their products' safety. The Food and Drug Administration is currently investigating an alleged cover-up by Hoffmann-La Roche of the lethal effects of its liquid anesthetic Versed, which has been linked to 40 deaths from respiratory failure. And while fraud has not been alleged against Pfizer, the New York City-based company will set aside $500 million for problems arising from one of its now discontinued artificial heart valves, which exhibit a sometimes fatal tendency to crack inside the body...
...inevitable setting. The Runnning Man, Terminator, and now Freejack all imagine an apocalyptic world which has been reduced, essentially, to a smoldering pile of ashes. Nuclear war and atmospheric decay are all in the cards and are all due to some form of human excess, be it greed or ambition...