Word: greed
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...remains unclear why the Hutton employees carried out the fraud. One possible reason is that Hutton managers are paid bonuses tied to the company's profits. But management experts doubt that greed is the full explanation. They point out that middle-level executives in many companies are constantly under stress to meet tough earnings targets. Says John Fleming, a professor at the University of Southern California Graduate School of Business Administration: "For middle managers, there is so much pressure to get a certain degree of performance that they sometimes feel they almost have to do something illegal to meet...
...casualness with which he delivers such lines as "The only reason I drink is so that people won't think I'm a dope fiend." Dillon has mastered the nurturing mother figure and Torn, perhaps the most flexible film actor around, fully mines this caricature of unprincipled greed. The rest of the cast seems to be a merry bunch of natural role-players and con men; the rare awkward line is pardonable...
...picture. Trillin is a funny guy. He is a political Woody Allen, a populist at heart who sees foolishness teamed with greed and punctures the pomposities of that combination with more wit than any writer around today...
...MUCH AS it is a story of greed and political perversion, Citizen Hughes is also the story of an American-style Mr. Kurtz, of whom Joseph Conrad said, "Everything belonged to him--but that was a trifle. The thing was to know what he belonged to, how many powers of darkness claimed him for their...
...supremely popular but now overshadowed rock star, having lain low after his much balleyhooed concert tour proved to be the anticlimax of the decade, has been taking a front row in every picture of the USA for Africa team? Yup, Jchovah's own falsetto, Mr. Michael Jackson. After the greed orgy that surrounded the Victory tour--what was soon supplanted in the public's attention by the musically superior (and considerably cheaper) Prince and Springsteen tours--Jackson was in serious need of reputation rehabilitation...