Word: greed
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...Okhotin says he suspects that his treatment was based on more than simple greed on the part of the Russian officials...
...that it's difficult not to love the guy. He has concocted a story preposterous enough for Austin Powers, never mind James Bond, extravagantly overstuffed with sex, drugs and gore interwoven in Baroque variations. The action begins with the India-Pakistan conflict in Kashmir and ultimately embraces rottenness and greed on a global scale...
When CEOs' salaries go up while workers' compensation and benefits go down, shrinking paychecks are rooted in greed, not competitiveness [BUSINESS, May 26]. Companies are using the economic climate to squeeze dollars out of employees. American workers need to fight back while there's still time. Boycott firms that outsource work to India. Demand to have your business handled by an American employee. And organize, organize, organize. The days of white-collar interests vs. blue-collar interests are gone. If you do not own the company you work for, you need a union, and you need...
...agree with the part where he went into the media promoting violence in society, and people who value greed putting themselves first,” Parekin said...
...hook yet. Several big firms settled charges that they had slanted stock research to win investment-banking fees. But other probes continue. If convicted, Quattrone would face a 10-year-maximum prison sentence-and a life sentence as a symbol of a decade's greed...