Word: greed
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...Thatcher's Conservative Party. At the Tories' annual conference in Blackpool, which opened two days after the Tottenham disturbance, Home Secretary Douglas Hurd proposed a law making the commission of a crime while carrying a firearm punishable by life imprisonment. The rioters and looters, Hurd declared, were motivated by "greed and the excitement of violence." In her speech to the delegates, Thatcher concurred, saying, "This is crime masquerading as social protest...
...later took as Governor to benefit his partners. After Edwards regained office, Volz insisted, his brother Marion acted as "bagman" to hold Edwards' share of the resulting profits. Said Volz: "Marion Edwards did not do a lick of work, yet he walked away with $1 million." Beyond routine greed, Volz declared, the Governor had a pressing need for money: some $800,000 in Las Vegas gambling debts...
Frequently baseball's playoffs upstage the World Series, but for once the ( pressure is on the league tournaments to live up to the regular season. Maybe it is serendipitous, after all, that greed is stretching things this week from best-of-five to best-of-seven. Everyone, certainly everyone in New York City, needs some time to exhale...
...says. "People are down and out, I suppose. Life isn't peachy keen and wonderful. Punk is for people who do and don't think. It's for kids who find total American life boring. I suppose it's motivated by the same things that motivate everything else--greed and lust and all that. I don't know. This is life in the Cynical Eighties. Maybe it hasn't changed...
...propaganda, we must firmly oppose bourgeois liberalism, that is, publicity that favors taking the capitalist road." He continued, "We exert ourselves for socialism not only because socialism provides conditions for faster development of the forces of production than capitalism but also because only socialism can eliminate the greed, corruption and injustice that are inherent in capitalism...