Word: greed
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...York's focus is as sweeping as Ourselves' is intimate. "New York was based upon greed," says the late Brendan Gill in the 10-hour documentary. Unlike the colonies settled by religious persecutees (and persecutors), New Netherland was run by the mammoth Dutch West India Co. (Imagine Microsoft building Seattle.) And the city remained dedicated to the godless buck as it became British, then American--though not always for the best, as Jacob Riis' horrifying photographs of immigrant poverty powerfully illustrate...
First off, he scheduled a meeting four days later at Dick Clark Productions to discuss new quiz-show possibilities. Normally, nursing programs from the brainstorming stage to the air can take forever, but this time the process kicked in at warp speed. Greed will premier on Fox this Thursday at 9 p.m. E.T. and run for three weeks, or longer if it proves to be a ratings winner...
...Greed is just the first of the quiz-show contenders hoping to cash in on Millionaire's success. Because game shows are cheaper to produce than sitcoms or dramas, nearly every network is scrambling to come up with one. The trick is finding the right formula...
...fashion related articles, arguing that their inclusion is also a product of marketing. "They know that they're marketing to young people skeptical of consumerism, so they put in articles to try and hook them." Stopping on a particularly alternative-looking Abercrombie lad opposite an article skeptical of corporate greed, Schor shakes her head, "They're capitalizing on the notion of counter-culture from the 60's, when in fact they're as dominant culture...
Some marchers carried signs. One read, "Greed is a disease and Harvard is a sick institution...