Word: greed
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...petro-hungry imperialist, but rather a strong leader with the courage and moral clarity to eschew those who seek oil money through appeasement. Despite continued opposition from what New York Times columnist William Safire has aptly dubbed the “Paris-Moscow-Beijing axis of greed,” the United States will soon be forced to topple a lethally-armed megalomaniac and liberate the Iraqi people...
...fueled by a pamphlet, the “Trial Juror’s Handbook,” that explained the importance of jury service. “As a juror, you will have to make difficult judgements [sic] involving all of the human passions—love, hate, greed, anger, etc.,” the Handbook promised, and accordingly I imagined a courtroom drama with the pageantry and carefully enumerated sins of a medieval morality play. “Remember that the function of a jury is to find the truth,” the Handbook remonstrated, and I imagined...
Many religions ask you to treat other people as you would want them to treat you. But human failings, especially greed, mean that this ideal, plus other sensible scriptural instructions, can be interpreted as one wants. For example, killing is bad, except during war or self-defense, and you can always declare war. Abraham may be a link between religions, but we will never surmount the lowest common denominator of the seven original sins. MURRAY HUNTER Auckland, New Zealand...
...environmentally sound, renewable source of energy. And this comes from a man whose wealth was built in part on a nonrenewable resource, the extraction of which has ruined beautiful landscapes across the globe! It's clear to me why corporate America is filled with endless stories of corruption, greed and the sacrifice of the many for the needs of an elite few. Jeff Franzmann Winnipeg...
...With Nussle's pollsters claiming he has more than 50% of the vote, Hutchinson needs to move the debate quickly to an area in which the G.O.P. is weakest: corporate greed's role in the faltering economy. But she is on her second D.C.-imported campaign manager in three months and is plainly uncomfortable with the negative campaign ads Washington is producing for her. "It's not Iowa," she says. Last week, while Nussle was voting to support the use of force in Iraq, Hutchinson was in between campaign stops, in Dubuque on the phone, begging for money...