Word: greed
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...Next day the borrower returns the utensil, and brings with it a smaller one because "your tablespoon gave birth to a teaspoon." Delighted, the miser offers a set of candlesticks, only to learn, two days later, that they have passed away. "How can candlesticks die?" screams the rich man. Greed gets a talmudic reply: "If spoons can give birth, candlesticks...
Whether we, as individuals, have benefited from the actions of a President must always take back seat to some conception of the commonweal some higher sense of purpose for us a nation. Ronald Reagan has reversed this creed of government and placed the twin values of greed and self-interest as the centerpiece of his Administration, and he now bids the American voters to ratify this vision. That he is apparently successful is testimony only to the genial Californian's skillful use of television to sway Americans from their fundamental generosity of spirit. We profoundly reject Ronald Reagan's vision...
...Mondale is the "loser." But it is the American people who will be the losers if they believe this fluff, because Reagan's victory will be the triumph of our own worst instants. It will symbolize the sacrifice of the role of a compassionate government on the altar to greed as symbolized by a few less dollars in income tax returns...
...future or past profits. Government officials say they also often find shady accounting in companies where top managers have set goals that are unrealistically high. Says L. Glenn Perry, former chief accountant for the SEC's enforcement division: "The two primary reasons for book cooking are ego and greed." Perry says that at now bankrupt A.M. International, the office-equipment firm, some employees who failed to meet management's targets resorted to dubious bookkeeping to avoid being fired...
...make a little money lifting women or logs or refrigerators," he says, "but that's show business." He figures he can add an extra 10 kilos of useful beef and compete at the 100-kg weight. In the meantime, he believes that "negative emotions, like greed or hate, can adversely affect performance, while positive ones, like love or generosity, can improve it." To be calm and controlled, he says, "sends beneficial chemicals to the brain." And helps mightily in forgetting a skinny bank balance...