Word: greed
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...inquiry by a three-member panel implicated two Cabinet members in drug smuggling and nearly toppled the administration of Prime Minister Lynden O. Pindling. Commented the Miami Herald in an editorial: "The panel portrays a country haunted by cocaine abuse, a police force riddled with corruption, lawyers perverted by greed and a government tainted by widespread influence peddling...
...cousin in Birmingham, one thief drove a stolen 1986 Buick Skylark / from a dealer's lot in Atlanta to Johnny's. He got $700, and Johnny got his name and telephone number. Says Charles Jordan, the Birmingham police sergeant who helped direct the operation: "After a while, greed takes over wisdom...
...this salient fact of inner rot based on pure egotism and greed which prompted the critical studies group to begin their assault on what the Law School had become. The intellectual issues are now completely obscured in personality and rancor. The root cause was never an ideological one but rather the monetization of the faculty in its drive for money, fame, and notoriety. Let us put things in their proper perspective. Benito Rakower, Ed.D...
...first glance, these suits seem like classic instances of litigious greed. No one forced these people to smoke cigarettes; why should cigarette companies be made to foot the bill for their customer's over-indulgence...
...artful selectivity. Scarcely a word is wasted. Hardly an aspect of the struggle to found a new civilization remains untouched. The Tree of Life dramatizes, sometimes with almost unbearable intensity, the American dream and its attendant nightmare. There is the heroism of embattled migrants, some motivated by greed or propped up by drink, others spurred on by a vision of their God's imperative. There is also the tangled, hopeless enmity between the invaders and the natives and between the whites and the blacks who have been made slaves...