Word: greed
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...into to the next step, what is success and how much of one’s value system one is willing to compromise to achieve that success. A vast majority equates success with the “rich and famous.” Most corporate scandals resulted from unabashed greed, and since they are all a product of our society, we must critically examine our value system and “the” definition of success. To paraphrase George Sheehan, the running philosopher: “Success is not something that can be measured or worn on a watch...
...republic. The regime is cunning enough to dispense new social liberties carefully, with periodic perfunctory raids reminding young people that they are being given freedom and shouldn't confuse it with a right or an accomplishment. But young Iranians probably can't be bought off indefinitely. The hedonism and greed of the moment mask a profound frustration that could still boil over. The question is, Will anyone notice until it does...
Veteran green campaigners have been surprised by the speed with which banks have embraced change. "I think that many activists may have assumed that bankers were priests of the Church of Greed," says Steve Kretzmann, director of Oil Change, a Washington group that specializes in tracking project finance. "But many bank representatives have a sophisticated and advanced sense of the environmental, social and reputational risks...
...subtle racism that still divides South African society. That may worsen in our second decade of democracy, as the idealists of the struggle and the survivors of oppression increasingly move out of public life. Our quality of life may decline if people fail to recognize capitalism's ills, like greed and self-complacency, and if they lack compassion for their neighbors. We have to pin our hopes on the possibility that enough South Africans have embraced the most fundamental value of our constitution: human dignity. Dan Badenhorst Cape Town Days of Rage Time vividly depicted the anti-Japanese sentiment brewing...
...explosion site, the arrival of a police patrol finally signaled that it was safe to approach the three wounded men. Even then some people in the crowd were motivated not by sympathy but by greed: they tried to steal money from Abu Karam's pockets. "I was shocked when I saw some policemen taking money and new clothes from the damaged cars," says Hasan. But the crowd also included some selfless Iraqis who decided to take the injured men to Yarmouk rather than wait for ambulances to wind their way through the gridlocked traffic...