Word: greed
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...comes down to money and greed, pure and simple," says Paul Much, senior managing director of the firm Houlihan, Lokey, Howard & Zukin, which counsels investors on opportunities such as sports. "This is about who gets a bigger share of the pie." The owners have deluded themselves into thinking the players should happily assist them in that redistribution, which violates human nature as well as labor history. Leigh Steinberg, perhaps the most powerful individual agent in professional sports, with some 150 clients under contract, agrees, "These sports are showing an incredible amount of self- destruction. This is a golden opportunity squandered...
Labor union members labeled Miller Beer a product of "corporate greed" and asked members of the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW) to avoid the product yesterday...
...retailers are not content when they're getting most of the business--they want it all," Oppedisano said in a statement. "Their greed is at the expense of the little...
Polanski has adeptly managed to sharpen the pace and buildup of mystery in this slightly convoluted detective thriller. Set in Southern California in the mid-1930s, the film seethes with human greed, political corruption and family scandal, so that it seems that even the land surrounding Los Angeles is tainted...
...soured Pamela Harriman's relations with her stepchildren. "Pam did not do me any great favors as a stepmother," says Brooke Hayward, whose father Leland Hayward was Pamela's second husband. (Averell was her third; her first was Winston Churchill's son.) "She's greedy beyond the usual human greed." Clifford says Averell's family were deeply unhappy in 1971 when Pamela, then 51, married Averell, then 80. Adds Clifford: "He was generous to Mrs. Harriman during his lifetime, and in his will. That was resented by members of his family...