Word: greed
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...Need and greed also figured prominently in the sixth week of the Los Angeles espionage trial of Svetlana Ogorodnikov, 35, and her husband Nikolay, 52. Richard W. Miller, 48, the first FBI agent ever accused of espionage, admitted to having been sexually involved with Svetlana but denied on the witness stand that serious financial straits moved him to pass on classified information to the Russian emigres. Miller admitted that he bounced checks, cheated his wife's uncle on a business deal, pocketed a $113 Social Security check from his wife's grandmother, sold FBI information to a private investigator...
...clouds of praise from England, Germany, Canada and Australia, may do just as well. True, the sex this time around is considerably muted. But moods have changed over the past 20 years, and Vizinczey has cannily kept pace. The prime aphrodisiacs of the ^ '80s seem to be money and greed, and An Innocent Millionaire offers a spellbinding combination of both...
Harsh penalties may be the most effective deterrent to executive-suite misdeeds. Says U.S. Attorney Giuliani: "Corporate crime is a crime of greed and fear. The best way to combat it is to raise the fear." Experts hope that the sentence given Thayer and the long prison term that Butcher is expected to receive will send a message to would-be business criminals about the consequences of getting caught...
...choking on her own vomit, a theory the doctor said the prosecutors told him to keep to himself in 1982. Finally, Puccio prevented Mrs. Von Bulow's personal banker, G. Morris Gurley, from testifying about the millions Von Bulow stood to inherit, thereby undermining the state's claim that greed motivated Von Bulow...
...assail reporters as too skeptical toward government, Pravda lambastes London's journalists from the left, as tame toadies of deceitful politicians. The handful of reporters in the play who show glimmers of decency are hounded out of the trade or nullified by their editors or derailed by their own greed ^ and ambition. In the climax of the plot, the forces of virtue, somewhat tarnished themselves, are gulled into printing a libel that undoes their chances of stopping an evil publisher. Like too many journalists, these dubious heroes simply believe what people tell them and thus are easily misled...