Word: greed
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...fear that the battle against cancer has turned into a study of greed. I am 60, and I have been watching family members die from cancer all my life, among them nonsmokers with lung cancer. I believe scientists could find a cure, but if they did, how many people would no longer be needed? Cancer has become big, big business. S. Michael Long, Levittown...
...companies going bankrupt or merging, and health care made unavailable as a result of cost. Suggesting that borrowing to live is the cause of the Wall Street collapse when the 400 richest people in the U.S. have as much money as several million average citizens shows ignorance of the greed and avarice controlling this country. Paul A. Heller, Washington, Michigan...
...fear that the battle against cancer has turned into a study of greed. I am 60, and I have been watching family members die from cancer all my life, among them nonsmokers with lung cancer. I believe scientists could find a cure, but if they did, how many people would no longer be needed? Cancer has become big, big business. S. Michael Long, LEVITTOWN...
What really surprises me: why did nobody ask the simple question, "What will happen if a large number of these subprime loans default? What will happen to banks and other financial institutions? Or was it only greed that made everybody ignore that what is happening now could ever happen. Did no one take into account that thousand of families would have their lives turned upside down - virtually overnight - if this scheme went wrong?" Frederik Steenbuch, OSLO
...match, could be measured by the outpouring of rage from scandalized French politicians. They were falling over one another to express outrage and find effective sanctions against those responsible, and deterrence against any recurrence. Ironically, it took the politicians longer to give coherent expression to their anger over the greed-driven global financial crisis than it did to excoriate some rambunctious soccer fans...