Word: greed
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...cost of inaction becomes greater. It is simply cynical to assign any other motives to the president on this issue. The Commander-in-Chief gig is not one that anybody takes lightly, and, tempting as it may be, we cannot pretend Bush is acting out of greed for oil or some weird complex to avenge his father. To do so is both ignorant and dangerous...
...rambling two-story house hidden by mango and chicle trees on the industrious island of Trinidad lives an unlikely watchdog against corporate greed. Ved Seereeram, a financial consultant and former banker, has been working for years to expose what he describes as a prestigious U.S. lender aggressively marketing financial instruments to governments that didn't really understand them. Tens of millions of dollars in excessive fees and interest, he says, have been diverted from poor Caribbean countries into the coffers of Citibank, now a unit of Citigroup. Until recently, no one really listened...
...taught at a better-business seminar. Trivializing student life contributes to an atmosphere of hostility and resentment between the administration and the students—especially when the administration tries to deflect attention from its economics-driven decision to ignore undergrads by pretending its hands are tied by the greed of cable companies...
...Megawati is a moderate too, but even if the President were to allow a crackdown on Islamic radicals, there is no guarantee that the military and police would cooperate. A combination of Islamic sympathy, interservice rivalry, greed and simple incompetence has hobbled similar past attempts. In a series of failed operations in recent years, law enforcement officers have allowed their fellow Indonesians suspected of terrorist activity to slip away...
...Maloney hoped to gain from concerns about corporate greed when local hardware company Stanley Works considered reincorporating in Bermuda to reduce taxes. He sponsored a bill to end the practice. Johnson countered with one that would put a three-year moratorium on such moves. Johnson's g.o.p. colleagues on the Ways and Means Committee then tried to block Maloney from testifying for his bill...