Word: greed
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Your story showed how the malfeasance of our congressional leaders and the greed of business executives have turned the American Dream into the American Nightmare. Shame on them! DEBORAH RUSS Aurora, Colo...
...Three Hotels. No longer merely promising, Jon Robin Baitz is now a major playwright. Off- Broadway, three wry, elegant and searing monologues by a husband and wife unveiled a sardonic saga of international corporate greed and the resulting wreckage of one executive's career, family and beliefs...
...after hanging up, telling him to ditch the phone and divulging her real whereabouts. Awesome. And then, if you look hard enough, comes the social insight. The viewer is comfortable rooting for, among others, a convicted car thief and a deposed don against corrupt law enforcement and an oil-greed government conspiracy. Dostoyevsky this ain’t, but it’s more thought-provoking than the average Fox drivel. So, if next week a prisoner is made to eat his own hair or the vice-president tries to have the prison burned down, don?...
...PREPARE FOR AN INTERVIEW? I take a yellow pad and categorize my questions. Ambition, motivation, greed, joy, defeat ... 50, 75 questions. And then what happens is, when an interviewee is maybe reluctant to really let it come out, you establish the chemistry of confidentiality with these questions. They begin to understand I know an awful lot about them, and I cared enough to read and look at and worry about the questions...
...iceberg, a single moment that distills the utter douchiness of this school. Harvard is a university where the same resources are available to all of us, where we shouldn’t have to scratch and kick and claw to get what we need. Yet somehow, greed is the pervading ethos of this campus...