Word: greed
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With vinegary zest each January, a number of star-struck publications make up their lists of who's in and who's out for the coming year. According to PEOPLE, USA Today and W, greed and selfishness are '80s evils. The new year promises a more compassionate, humane crop of idols. Generally getting the cold shoulder for 1990 are hardhearts like Roseanne Barr, Bryant Gumbel, Eddie Murphy and Margaret Thatcher. The new In crowd includes such softies as Delta Burke, Arsenio Hall, Madonna and Meryl Streep. Rocker Janet Jackson has ended up with a foot in both camps. Time...
...tired cliche to describe the 1980s as the era of selfishness, ostentation and greed. Ever since Nancy Reagan undertook to redecorate the White House and purchase new china while the rest of the country suffered the worst unemployment since the Great Depression, word has been out that Greed...
...curious coincidence of the rebirth of greed with what President Bush is fond of calling "the longestlived economic expansion in post-war history," (paid for, not incidentally, by the largest debt in human history) has covered this ethos in a cloak of morality. "Some people may be getting obscenely rich, but at least the country as a whole is benefiting...
Dirtiest Dealer. He was Wall Street's advance man of the greed decade. Slick securities speculator Ivan Boesky made millions with investors' money. The inside trader paid a record $100 million to settle civil charges for his high jinks and later was sentenced to three years in a federal prison. When he was recently released on a furlough, he emerged sporting a ragged Howard Hughes- style beard...
BUSINESS: Goodbye to greed and unpaid bills...