Word: greed
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...know you don't want to be stereotyped into making "statement" movies, but this does make a statement about corporate greed...
...movie about Tyco and all of that or you can make a movie about a man who's failed in life, failed in his family, failed in his own expectations, and put it in the world of something we recognize as a real issue at this point ? and corporate greed in particular, is a great one. This isn't plucked out of thin air. You can find this case from a certain defense attorney who became a special prosecutor who defended a car company after they had hidden the fact that they discussed whether or not 400 lives a year...
...credible candidate than Brown, who ran as a quirky outsider, but there are a lot of similarities in their messages: Brown ran on a platform of campaign finance reform, pledging to end the "Stop-and Shop for the monied special interests"; Edwards has focused his campaign on fighting corporate greed and restoring the middle class. "I don't think we're going to have meaningful change in this country unless we have a President that's willing to fight the entrenched special interests," Edwards said...
...fact is that today’s America suffers from a serious economic imbalance; decades of untrammeled corporate greed and apathetic conservative government have produced a nation where a small group of wealthy people live in astonishing luxury while everyone else hangs by a shoestring. These elites—insurance companies are just a small example, alongside media barons, oil tycoons, financial wizards, and D.C. power brokers—have taken control of our government and our economy to no one’s benefit but their own, and in the process they are destroying the fabric of American society...
...philosophical version of change, or are we going to have a fight to bring about the change we really need?" Prince asked in a rhetorical flourish meant to contrast philosophical change (Obama) with the real thing (Edwards). Edwards' populist message has focused on stamping out the power of corporate greed in Washington, and he argues that Obama's "Kumbaya" inclusiveness cannot get that job done. "Asking lobbyists to simply give up their power by asking them? In whose world? Not in the real world. That is a complete and total fantasy, it'll never happen," Edwards told a crowd...