Word: greed
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...Greed cuts both ways, of course. Six Labrador retriever breeders say they have filed a class action against the AKC and the Labrador Retriever Club Inc. for changing the breed standard to favor slimmer, longer-legged animals over the traditional stockier, shorter ones -- thereby devaluing the out-of-date model. And some owners of a relatively rare dog called the Havanese, which arrived in this country from Cuba in the mid-1970s, are actively seeking AKC recognition, despite worries by other owners that they are inviting overbreeding and genetic problems...
...supervisory -- or "root" -- level, and installed a program that fired off E-mail messages every few seconds. Adding intrigue to insult, the message turned out to be a manifesto that railed against "capitalist pig" corporations and accused those companies of turning the Internet into an "overflowing cesspool of greed." It was signed by something called the Internet Liberation Front, and it ended like this: "Just a friendly warning corporate America; we have already stolen your proprietary source code. We have already pillaged your million dollar research data. And if you would like to avoid financial ruin, get the ((expletive deleted...
Seeing this was quite unexpected. At first, I felt a warm, squishy feeling of empathy and optimism. This could very well be the staging ground for a modernday Christmas miracle, I thought, in which the kindness of the human spirit will rise above all of the greed and callousness that seems to characterize the rest of the year...
...they had to do was call up their buddies in the real-estate industry to get their money," Lee said. "The real estate industry has stirred up a hornet's nest. Their greed and selfishness really blinded them to what they were doing...
Adam is proud to be one of the ones hiding behind the wall, dreaming of a cushy Fortune 500 job and the ultimate savory tofu. An unrepentant yuppie, Adam gives his analysis of the "Decade of Greed": "I don't think that greed is bad," he says, "Risk is bad, and the Eighties were really a misevaluation of what risk was... They were using the wrong paradigms. I don't think greed itself is bad. The maximization of value is ultimately what makes... society great...