Word: greed
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...Greed . . . is good. Greed is right. Greed clarifies, cuts through and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit . . . Greed -- mark my words -- will save . . . the U.S.A...
...have been a significantly good decade," says Malcolm Forbes, 70, the ebullient magazine publisher whose $2 million Moroccan birthday party for himself epitomized the decade's love of self-indulgence. "Critics point to the glitterful excesses and the greed, but, God, they miss the point," says Forbes. "This was the decade that saw the triumph of U.S.-led free enterprise. Rebuilding the economies of Eastern Europe now offers huge opportunities, and it will be done in the next decade...
...atmosphere of the 1980s, along with actual crimes, spread a general sense that anything goes. Get rich, borrow, spend, enjoy. Not only Gordon Gekko said greed is good; so did Ivan Boesky, the dapper king of arbitrage, before he ended up going to prison (Gekko presumably landed there too). And the close of the decade was symbolized by Boesky not just going to prison but also emerging on leave in a long white beard that made him look like some reincarnation of the Ancient Mariner or King Lear...
...evasion, Helmsley wept, "I am more humiliated and ashamed than anybody could ever imagine." The judge was unmoved. Her attempt to charge off as business expenses items ranging from a $12.99 girdle to a $1.2 million pool enclosure for her mansion was the "product of naked greed," he declared. Helmsley is appealing the verdict, but as she left the courtroom, one of the little people had the last word: "There goes Marie Antoinette...
...curious coincidence of the rebirth of greed with what President Bush is fond of calling "the longest-lived 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...