Word: greed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...friendly to the U.S. But according to Maas' account, the CIA looked the other way after Wilson left the agency to become an entrepreneur. To the author, Wilson is a sort of cloak-and-dagger Great Gatsby, although there is nothing romantic about his exploits. Manhunt is about naked greed, a tale full of knaves and sociopaths pursuing a twisted dream of private enterprise...
...Senate floor, the transition rules faced a rare attack, mounted by Ohio Democrat Howard Metzenbaum, who branded many of them "greed rules." Metzenbaum got the Unocal rule deleted with Packwood's support. One reason: Packwood had a score to settle with California Republican Pete Wilson, the rule's co-sponsor. But otherwise, Senators were of a mind to add rather than subtract. Alaska Republican Ted Stevens complained that the privilege of inserting transition rules in the bill was being hogged by Finance Committee members...
...flick Risky Business, and no one was ready for De Mornay. She was a call girl with a heart of Kevlar, growling seductively at the stupefied Tom Cruise, who played a suburban high school senior whose parents had gone off on vacation. The script managed to satirize kids, adults, greed, sex, Porsches and the Princeton admissions process in less than two hours, and De Mornay was easily best-of-show. Thousands cheered. De Mornay went on to play a rock singer opposite Michael O'Keefe's baseball player in The Slugger's Wife, a problem film written by Neil Simon...
...failure of the U.S.'s European allies to participate in such measures undermines the effectiveness of sanctions, McFarlane said. He sharply criticized the allies' policies toward terrorism for being dominated by "a combination of greed and fear...
...When you trade with a country that murders innocent civilians, that is an expression of greed," McFarlane said referring to the lack of support in Western Europe for the U.S.'s imposition of economic sanctions against Libya...