Word: greed
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Courtney. The Kansas City pharmacist, who allegedly diluted the chemotherapy treatments for at least 35 patients, is charged with one federal count of adulterating and misbranding drugs. Courtney, who is reportedly worth at least $10 million, has admitted to investigators that he?d diluted the expensive drugs "out of greed and in order to make more money." If convicted, he could face a $250,000 fine and a three-year jail term...
...race, all for the amusement of a bunch of inveterate international gamblers wagering on which desperado will grab the prize: $2 million in a remote bus-station locker. Before the race is over, Whoopi Goldberg is stranded in the desert; Seth Green and Vince Vieluf, as two brothers whose greed is matched only by their stupidity, get trapped--in their Ford Bronco--atop an airport radar tower; a cow flies; Cuba Gooding Jr. hijacks a bus full of Lucille Ball look-alikes; and a nice Jewish couple played by Jon Lovitz and Kathy Najimy steal Hitler's car from...
...have outstayed their welcome. Only the very occasional nut case, like Rat Race, has conviction and divinely orchestrated lunacy. This may (or may not) say something about the pathology of our everyday life. But the faith that is driving the Rat Race characters through their uncharitable activities is pure greed and pure solipsism...
...call upon government to fund immediately a Department of Pathetic Investors and have DOPI look into the methods and motivations of those who eagerly plunked down their savings for the likes of VA Linux and iVillage. I'm confident that the inquiry would produce damning evidence of investors' blatant greed, deceit, blind lust for wealth, sorry ethics and outright fraud. In other words, they were no better behaved than the analysts and bankers...
...money's good, and that puts them at particular risk. In small towns and cities like Nanhai, the wealth of Taiwanese businesspeople makes them the object of workers' envy and criminals' greed; they are particularly vulnerable to triads, organized crime syndicates that specialize in extortion, kidnapping and murder...