Word: greed
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...targeted for destruction because of what it represented—capitalism, free trade, material wealth, greed, power and even the secular, democratic way of life. The attacks represented a clash of civilizations, yet the terrorists struck at progressive society with products of its own technological sophistication. The deaths of thousands of innocent citizens going about their workday routines helped to elevate this disaster to mythic stature. Who could have conceived of being attacked while making photocopies in a normal office environment? This tragedy stripped away the fragile veneer of security and stability from our daily lives...
...protests with demonizing references to the people and establishments they blame for the ills they are seeking to correct. The protests are not about the janitors, but about the avarice of Harvard administrators. They’re not about the Africans, but about Coca-Cola’s corporate greed. And they’re not about Iraqi civilians, but about Bush, who—like all Republicans—is clearly...
...kill the musicians, too." The family was seeking $1 million in damages, Khramtsova said, "to make the officials remember that their office is a job, not a privilege, to ensure that nothing like that happens to others." The Moscow government defended itself in part by accusing the plaintiffs of greed. The city faces financial disaster if it has to compensate citizens for terrorist acts, the argument went, and the theater attack is neither the first Chechen operation nor is it likely to be the last. Vladimir Platonov, chairman of the Moscow City Duma, said the plaintiffs were digging into...
...what should be permissible and what should not? Does the promise of a new technology outweigh the risks that it could be misused? The challenges are too important to address in a climate of fear or ignorance or to be distorted by the greed or vainglory of renegade scientists with an alien agenda. --Reported by Melissa August/Washington, Andrea Dorfman and Deirdre van Dyk/New York, Jeff Israely/Rome and Tim Padgett/Miami
...Guillen turn the claims of a cult into a spectacle? It could have been greed. Or ambition. Or maybe he just wanted to get his name in the newspaper. Regardless, his antics have overturned the assumption that science journalists avoid pseudo-science and wild, unsubstantiated claims. If journalism has room for ethical rules besides “getting the story,” the second should be “intervene only in matters of life and death” and the third “remain skeptical of nutcases.” Unfortunately, the gullible Mr. Guillen fails...