Word: greed
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...even ancient Rome had its shamuses. Falco wisecracks his way through the empire's sleazy underside to provide amusing lessons on the way crime, greed and cover-ups were endemic even in 70 B.C. In the 17th Falco novel, See Delphi and Die, the Eternal City's original tough guy takes on the tourist industry. (Rome invented that too.) Davis' crimes are wickedly convoluted, but Falco's facetious tongue and domestic complications are the real...
...Palestinians hundreds of greenhouses and hothouses in Gaza, where settlers grow everything from celery to exotic flowers. The U.S., in turn, would compensate Israel for the agricultural facilities, which bring in $150 million in earnings and employ some 4,000 people. But the plan is unraveling, thanks to the greed of Palestinian bigwigs. As they delay final approval of the deal, and with it Israeli compensation from the U.S., settlers have begun dismantling greenhouses rather than leaving freebies for the Palestinians...
...Patients aren’t stupid, and you know when something has gone wrong, usually, and while there are always patients that will sue because of perceived revenge or greed, mostly what people want is an acknowledgement that something is going on,” said Mary Dana Gershanoff, co-chair of the Adult Patient & Family Advisory Council at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, who is representing patients for Leape’s group...
Americans' greed is pitiful. People who speculate on housing while others remain homeless are shallow in the extreme. Tearing down perfectly good houses to build huge, gaudy mansions is wasteful, immoral and counterproductive. People must understand that the only difference between a homeless person and a person who inhabits the largest house in Beverly Hills is four walls...
Among the first of history's judges were the Filipinos who filed through the palace last week, many of whom earn less in a year than Imelda spent on a single pair of shoes. "I am appalled by the greed," said one nun after her glimpse into the life-style of the rich and famous. "In the palace, I saw all the seven capital sins." Even visitors accustomed to more affluent surroundings were stunned. "Next to Imelda," said Democratic Congressman Stephen Solarz of New York after visiting Malacaang, "Marie Antoinette was a bag lady...