Word: greed
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...Moscow handlers? Or was Ames a double agent by then, persuading Rosario to spy first on Colombia for the U.S., then on the U.S. for the Soviet Union? Two FBI officials involved in the case insist that Ames was turned first and that Rosario went along, subsequently displaying aggressive greed...
...bloodcurdling as any mugger's. When it comes to social carnage, the convenience-store stickup can't compare with a leveraged buyout, trickling-down unemployment, depression, anger, alcoholism, divorce, domestic abuse and addiction. I'd like to see white men with suspenders and cellular phones tested for the greed gene. The genomes of presidential candidates should be a matter of public record...
...assault on Kerrigan made a kind of crude competitive sense -- a product of ambition, anxiety and greed -- many of the sad stories that led up to the Games seemed, by contrast, altogether senseless. They involved suffering that could bring no one any gain...
...America should be repelled by that witch's brew of hypocrisy and sanctimony called "political correctness," which as poisoned the professional life of elite colleges and universities. If there is to be a spiritual and intellectual revival, the students must do it. The academic establishment, paralyzed by cronyism, greed and moral cowardice, incapable of reforming itself...
...people here would benefit from more public discussion and thought about the virtues outlined in the Scout Law. And I can offer three years worth of examples of Harvard people who either ignored their moral senses or allowed them to be obscured by cynicism, ambition or greed. Consider...