Word: greed
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From brutes to insects, in only 300 years: what an evolution for English thought! And in between, for the Aborigines, a long and melancholy history of invasion, resistance, murder, rape, rum and the destruction of tribal identity by white paternalism and greed. No indigenous people ever had a worse deal from European colonists...
...charges painted a portrait of greed and corruption that began in Manila and continued in Honolulu. U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani said Marcos funneled the stolen money through secret bank accounts and then used it to buy four Manhattan buildings. The indictment accused Marcos of having defrauded U.S. lenders of more than $165 million that was borrowed to finance the properties. Co-defendants include Adnan Khashoggi, the Saudi Arabian financier, arms dealer and middleman in the Iran-contra scandal, who allegedly posed as the owner of the properties to protect the Marcos interests. "This case amounted to the Marcoses and their...
MAMET relishes these games of greed and deception, and he displays the casinos and the mobsters in all their garish glory. He presents a colorful parade of mob hierarchy, from obsequious, weasel-like underlings to laconic, imperious chieftains...
Students' obsession with career preparation is not merely a matter of too much greed or too little imagination. "I think it's because they're more worldly," explains Frederic Schroeder, dean of students at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. "Students come to us now with a much wider range of experiences and a much better sense of the world through the media. It's natural that they should come with different expectations than students who came out of more sheltered environments 20 or 30 years...
Conrad's arrest is a reminder of the greed that has motivated Americans to spy on their country. West German sources say Conrad was paid "in the six figures" for his secrets. "It's the Walker case revisited," says former CIA Director William Colby, "a slob who sells out his country...