Word: greedfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...provide more intelligent, effective law enforcement and, through legislation, to do away with the dangerous unfettered sale of firearms. Another is nothing less than the elimination of the ghetto and what it stands for: an increasingly disaffected population. Though probably there will always be violence-out of anger or greed, love or madness-large-scale, socially significant violence is usually caused by authentic grievances, and the U.S. should be able to narrow if not eliminate these. But that leaves, finally, the individual flash or explosion of violence; and to deal with this, man must learn more about man-the mystery...
...Bombay, for a world fund made up of a portion of the money now spent on armaments to "relieve the most destitute of this world." Whatever the channels, he declared, "superfluous wealth of rich countries should be placed at the service of poor nations." Otherwise, he predicted, the "continued greed" of the rich nations "will certainly call down upon them the judgment of God and the wrath of the poor, with consequences no one can foretell...
They ripped into "De-si-i-gn for De-e-di-cation": "We'll go harder, faster, higher in space, Deeper in the sea, The greatest generation in history, And banish forever hatred and fear. Famine and greed, Every last problem of humanity. So hay-yay ..." They poured out "What Color is God's Skin?" They rocked out their theme song: "Up! Up with people! You meet em wherever you go! Up! Up with people! They're the best kind folks we know...
There is more than simple greed behind the pressure. The Persian Gulf countries want high pumping quotas as insurance against competition from new oil sources being developed in areas closer to world markets. By year's end Libya will pass Iraq in production, rank fourth in the Middle East (after Saudi Arabia, Kuwait ,and Iran). Algerian production is growing and tiny Tunisia became an exporter for the first time this year. Before long, Egypt will be in the market, thanks to a Phillips Petroleum strike near El Alamein announced last week...
Price oi Progress. Moore is less interested in the difference between the forms than in their similarities. Whatever industrialization led to, he says, it was born of human greed, and the installation cost was everywhere appalling. Where progress came slowly, as in the case of Japan, which has never had a revolution, its price was dissipated through long centuries of repression. India, a country still awaiting transition to the modern world, is still paying that price...