Word: greed
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...making money as the paramount goal. Again we realize that this description probably fits a portion of the senior class (and that high paying jobs may be especially attractive to those with the burden of large student loans), but we are unwilling to discard our naivete wholesale and ascribe greed and selfishness to the same students who have filled the ranks of PBHA service programs. We cannot be ignorant of their undeniable good fortune. One must wonder how it is that Harvard students, who have been the beneficiaries of all that society has to offer, could feel a desire only...
What does the N.F.L. stand for? Could it be...greed? How else do you explain the Arizona Cardinals making eyes at Los Angeles just seven years after they moved from St. Louis to Phoenix? How else do you explain Al Davis moving his Raiders back to Oakland after he cost the N.F.L. $50 million in legal fees and damages by moving them to Los Angeles? How else do you explain Art Modell betraying the most loyal fans in pro football by taking his Browns from Cleveland to Baltimore? How else do you explain the blood on the hands...
Decorations for the rally included balloons tied to poles in the Yard, placards reading, "Harvard Keep Your Hands off PBH" and "Student Need, Not Harvard Greed," as well as an orange bandanna tied around John Harvard's calf...
When these characters are driven by greed and last--those traits which are celebrated in Vegas--this film works. But soon the main characters lose their passion and the script, by Scorsese and Nicholas Pileggi, can offer them no real options. In "Casino" everyone is content to gamble without worrying. When Ace, Ginger and Nicky finally do lose everything, it's too late--the audience has stopped caring. The impression which remains is a richness of atmosphere which is sickening...
Striking Boeing workers, concerned about health insurance benefits and angry over prospective bonuses for Boeing executives, rejected a three-year contract offer that had been accepted earlier by the union leadership. Members of Machinists District Lodge 751 chanted "No givebacks, no way," and "Stop Boeing Greed" as it was announced that 60.9 percent of the rank-and-file rejected the proposal. Union negotiators urged membership to accept the offer, arguing that the agreement would boost pensions, offer some protections against job losses through subcontracting and scale down health care increases. But most of the 24,000 members rejected a requirement...