Word: greed
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...nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia, Egypt and other African countries has raised many questions about Pakistan's involvement. The sale and trading of illicit technology and nuclear-bomb materials would not have been possible without the consent and complicity of Pakistan's political and military establishment. Given Khan's greed, it is quite possible that some nuclear secrets may have reached terrorist groups like al-Qaeda. Srinivasan Balakrishnan Jamshedpur, India Your story described how Khan's global smuggling network sold nuclear materials. I am not defending Khan, but I must point out that the U.S. has the largest arsenal...
...BUSINESS'S BULLY! They picketed a celebrity-studded party the Governor threw at his Brentwood home for retired NBC anchor Tom Brokaw. When the A&E channel ran a biopic called See Arnold Run, the California Nurses Association punctuated it with commercials of R.N.s denouncing him as "driven by greed and profits," part of a $100,000 TV campaign. Their full-page ads in Washington and California newspapers accused him of kowtowing to the hospital lobby to "put vital health policy up for sale." The headline: KICKING BUTT OR KISSING UP? Wherever Schwarzenegger turns up these days, nurses are sure...
Just as a Shakespearean actor can make iambic pentameter sound natural, so McShane brings Milch's profane yet lofty dialogue to life. And he makes Swearengen the embodiment of the feral, vital greed that fueled a nation's growth. His character is loathsome but, McShane notes, also "the galvanizing force behind what the camp would become--a legitimate place for people to live." Civilization may be closing in on Al Swearengen's mining town, but his rich character offers Ian McShane plenty of gold yet to strike. --Reported by Jeanne McDowell/Los Angeles
...media leader squandering his company's worth, a tyrannical boss, a failure clinging to power--these are dog-bites-man stories that Stewart simply bundles up in a deliciously toxic, if underanalyzed, package. It's not a tragedy worthy of the Bard, but it is a lusty roll in greed and spite. In other words, a good old-fashioned Hollywood production...
Whether motivated by greed or ideology or both, Khan decided to go into business for himself, even as he oversaw Pakistan's nuclear development. Khan offered a one-stop shop for regimes interested in producing nuclear weapons. He offered centrifuges--known as P-1, for Pakistan, and later P-2, a more sophisticated version--as well as machines that make centrifuges (critical to Khan's customers because hundreds or thousands of them are needed to make highly enriched uranium in quantities sufficient for a weapon). Utilizing a variety of contacts in Europe, Asia and Africa, Khan built a network...