Word: greed
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...cuts and deregulation that became known as Reaganomics and hurled anathemas at heretics who argued that the government had a positive role to play in the U.S. economy. While Bartley's polemics sometimes clashed with facts reported in the Journal's news columns, which were full of tales of greed and corruption in the executive suite, they provided comfort to many of the paper's conservative readers...
...thinking was that American's fundamental moral character changed spontaneously in 1980 and the recession was a JUDGEMENT FROM GOD on us for our sins. It was a penance for greed a la Reagan and Boesky. It was not just a downturn in the country's real GNP--no, no, no. If we were better people, it would never have happened...
...compensation through the proxy system. Shareholders at 43 companies, including Chrysler, IBM and Eastman Kodak, have submitted proposals seeking to curb executive pay. Next year the number could double. Says Ralph Whitworth, president of the United Shareholders Association: "What we're witnessing is a full-scale rebellion against corporate greed run amuck...
...then meet the King's court (or Marlon Brando's, as the case may be) dressed in business suits and equipped with guns as well as with daggers, who proceed to play out Shakespeare's story of greed, murder and revenge with an urgency heightened by the references made to modern times...
...make a difference in our lives. Wal-Mart's arrival ended all that. The second killing occurred in December 1990, when Wal-Mart closed its doors in Hearne. It closed because it couldn't turn a profit. Wal-Mart leaves an empty building as testimony to the '80s' greed, and it leaves a downtown of vacated shops as testimony to our rush to save a little money -- maybe not a very different kind of greed...