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...computers at newspapers. Even the opposition Labor Party isn't proposing to renationalize all the companies that have been sold off to private shareholders or to take back the formerly state-owned houses that have been sold to their tenants. Even those put off by the glitz and the greed of Thatcherworld wouldn't really like to return to the gloomy, hangdog "British disease" atmosphere of the postwar period...
What is it about Texas politicians and greed? First there was the furor over John Tower's defense contracting, and now the Jim Wright scandal. Hark back to John Connally's tangled legal history, and recall the get-rich-on-the-public- payroll legacy of Lyndon Johnson. On the national stage, those Texans who have avoided this moral indictment seem to be those who were born rich, like George Bush or Senator Lloyd Bentsen...
...Meese record is an eerie echo from a year ago. No laws were violated. Special prosecutors could not recommend indictment. There was no hard evidence of greed or doling out special favors to get wealthy. Meese was seen to be too hurried, a bad judge of people, unaware of the court of public opinion that calls for elevated ethical standards. He was blind to the special symbolism of an Attorney General. It was a list of acceptable human weaknesses for other public jobs...
...with a wholly unsatisfactory solution. We could pursue complete ethical purity in economic affairs. But such a course is entirely impractical. The market seldom rewards moral uprightness. Alternatively, we can attempt to distinguish among varying degrees of ethical corruption and weigh them against financial gain, leaving the individual's greed as the final arbiter...
Current capitalist philosophy says that one man's greed will benefit the masses. Is Frank Lorenzo fighting our battle, the battle of airline passengers, against recalcitrant and over-paid union members...