Word: greed
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...mandate” of the 1980 election by scurrying to the right will probably find their jobs taken from them by identical-looking Republican challengers in a few years. Jimmy Carter lost because he failed to define how he differed from Reagan’s blatant appeal to human greed and senile values—others who follow in his path will follow him to political limbo. This election was a defeat for the half-baked party Carter hoped to forge, not for the party that Franklin Roosevelt did forge and the one that can emerge strong from this year...
Then again, Gore's new movie has something of a mutant-action-hero plotline of its own. It's the tale of a scorned, washed-up politician transformed into a laptop-wielding ninja whose PowerPoint could rescue the planet from the forces of greed and indifference. The slide-show warning about the risks of global warming that Gore, 58, has been giving to audiences for years has been turned into a 92-min. documentary called An Inconvenient Truth. The film opened in New York City and Los Angeles to better-than-decent reviews, expands to all the 10 biggest markets...
...fastidious hit man, was one of the lovely surprises of Cannes 2004 and a winner of the Best Film, Screenplay and Director prizes at the Donatello Awards, Italy's equivalent to the Oscars. The new movie trumps the earlier one, creating a small-town Italian cosmos where love and greed, Venus and venality, are ever on a collision course...
...postwar America that Fitzgerald was writing of is in many ways similar to the 1990s, that barnyard decade between the Cold War and the new, and as yet unnamed, era that our new historians will judge as an interlude of easy fortunes, rampant optimism, and unbridled greed. It was one big party...
...While few deny the power of rising interest rates to curtail the growth in equity prices eventually, not everyone believes that moment has come yet. There are the calculations that economists do, and then there are "animal spirits"?the greed and euphoria that feeds into and prolongs stock booms long after the rationalists conclude they should end. India, some analysts believe, is now a classic case of a market where sentiment may be trumping economics, given that the market there has already tripled in the past three years. "All India's ducks are in a row right now," says Amit...