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...also started to become the most controversial, in part because the tour organizers seemed at odds with one another and with the ideals that Michael, especially, has tried to embody. Tickets were too pricey; lots of fans were getting cut out. Disorganization and ill will were rampant. Greed was keeping pace with showmanship and good p.r. manners, and seemed to be gaining on both. So when Michael and four of his brothers took the stage last Friday night at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Mo., for the first show of a tour that will wind on into autumn...
...newsstands earlier this month as hopeful New Yorkers waited to place their bets. Among them: Governor Mario Cuomo, who stood in the rain for 20 minutes in Manhattan to buy $5 worth of chances. "There's something going on in this state," he said. "It's called greed." No wonder. Fed by three successive drawings that failed to produce a big winner, New York's lottery jackpot had ballooned to a record $22.1 million, the highest ever in North America. (The world's largest: Spain's El Gordo, "the Fat One," which in 1983 amassed...
...Wall Street it is often said that two emotions rule the market: greed and fear. In the Case of the Country Club Speculators, greed clearly got the best of fear...
...Auto Workers argues that if quotas are lifted, the Japanese share of the U.S. market will jump from about 22% to 40%. By the union's count, 200,000 American jobs would be lost. Says U.A.W. President Owen Bieber: "Brock apparently wants to punish the workers for the greed of their bosses...
...wonder then that they are hated. Who would want to overthrow this fine American system? Can you imagine life without capitalism? Without social, political and economic inequality? Without greed, opportunism, or racism? Would we all be speaking Russian after such a revolution? Is there any hope that American society will change...