Word: greed
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...cutter sees the toll that greed has exacted from the land. But it was not so apparent early in his career. "There was tremendous waste in those days," he recalls. "Profit was the name of the game. We thought we would never run out of timber. We started way too late on reforestation." Now he recognizes the need to protect nature from man. "We've only got this one old earth," he says, "and we better take care of it. I most certainly do not think 'environmentalist' is a dirty word. Anybody who isn't one has his head...
...they in Burma or Afghanistan or Northern Ireland or Los Angeles, are drawn to the violence; even the fear, when it distills into adrenaline, carries illicit pleasure. What sets Los Angeles apart from Afghanistan, Burma and Northern Ireland is that gang warfare, with its spoils of drug money, gratifies greed. Money in South Central is the gang warrior's jihad -- a fitting retribution for a materialistic society...
Cookie Monster: Michael Milken, Leona Helmsley, the Harvard Management Corporation--we all know greed. Cookie Monster is that cute, cuddly creature who goes absolutely bonkers at the mention of cookies. Just substitute "$65,000 plus performance bonus!" for "cookie!" and you can set off the same frenzy at the Office of Career Services...
...conceded to the House subcommittee that parts of the industry have been too zealous. Chief executive Charles Berger of Weight Watchers, an H.J. Heinz subsidiary that takes a moderate approach to weight loss, likened the diet business to Wall Street in the 1980s. "Without touching on the issue of greed," he said, "some companies in our field have overpromised quick weight loss. And the promises have grown increasingly excessive." Others doubt that an industry with so many players can effectively police itself. Ronald Stern, president of the nutrition division at Slim-Fast, a firm that sells liquid-diet products over...
...WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES: IRREVERENT NOTES FROM A DECADE OF GREED by Barbara Ehrenreich (Pantheon; $19.95). The populist essayist leads a neoliberal charge against the '80s with some witty Reagan bashing, yuppie demolishing, corporation crunching and hearty swipes at a time when a clever few made so much at the expense of so many...