Word: greed
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...bunch of non-voters. Rather than approaching youth as disenchanted individuals who are otherwise serious, the media paints young people as irresponsible and out of touch: Generation Y, as in why bother? The reaction of campaigns to this message has been to try to pander to youths' perceived greed for entertainment. After watching the WWF wrestler "The Rock" introduce House Speaker Dennis Hastert and seeing Gov. Jesse Ventura flaunt his feather boa, few can question the image of politically irresponsible youth. Thus the media's message has become ingrained in our political culture...
...chance. But a light follows Maurizio, and he does not know why. Curiosity, not greed, has brought him back to the little North End grocery store where he made his fortune. And twice he's hit again. Once for $20,000, another time for $10,000. Is it the MIRACLES key chain he still carries? Is it the work of Maurizio's patron saint? "St. Anthony is very big around here," he says...
...this game-within-the-game lies something essential about Survivor. Much ink has been spilled about the show's meaning since it conquered TV last summer. Yes, it's about the voyeuristic impulse. Yes, it's about greed, brains and stamina. Yes, it's about a television business in flux. But in a word, Survivor is about control...
...make some improvements to baseball, just don't impose a salary cap. For even in the absence of any substantive solutions, you should never underestimate the power of owners' greed as a restraint on limitless spending. As rich as the Yankees are, George Steinbrenner will forever be more inclined to pocket some profits before he spends everything he has on player payroll. Don't believe me? Why, then, did Georgie Porgie not go after Manny this winter? If New York wanted him, he was theirs for the taking. And it's not as if the Yankees couldn't afford both...
...December 1999, the sweet harmonies had turned sour. Luckett and Roberson delivered letters to Knowles "disaffirming" him as their manager and filed a suit charging that his "greed, insistence on control, self-dealing and promotion of his daughter's interests at the expense of Plaintiffs, became the dominant forces in Destiny's Child." Knowles, who disputes the charges, says Luckett's and Roberson's roles in Destiny's Child were "imaging more so than talent." He replaced them with Farrah Franklin and Michelle Williams. Luckett and Roberson's lawyer, Randy Bowman, defends them: "My clients' talent has been validated...