Word: greeds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...occasion like strangers in a strange land. Now the Dominican Sisters of Adrian, Mich., are appealing to a higher source. They have devised a prayer for a "government of integrity," calling upon the deity "to strengthen and inspire our representatives to pass legislation that will emancipate us from cancerous greed and conspiratorial secrecy." In Detroit, Archbishop John Cardinal Dearden issued a pastoral letter that noted, "These are difficult days for the country we love," and asked observance of the first three Fridays in November as days of voluntary prayer, penance and fasting in light of the nation's political...
Wiesenthal is severely, and justly, critical of the monarchs, whose greed and overweening zeal did so much economic and spiritual harm both to the Jews and to Spain itself, crowning the Inquisition's persecution of Jews with the expulsion from the country of most of its best commercial minds. The final irony, of course, is that these two remorseless rulers, who financed Columbus' later expeditions with plundered Jewish wealth, unwittingly opened a New World where, in the centuries that followed, persecuted Jews would indeed find the haven they had sought so long...
...virtual disappearance of the anchovies did not result entirely from the errant current, according to Fisheries Research Adviser C.P. Idyll. Writing in Scientific American, he places much of the blame on human greed. U.N. and Peruvian experts had long recommended that the fishing industry take no more than 10 million tons of anchovies a year; that catch would not prevent the fish population from reproducing itself annually. But in 1970 the fishermen caught a record 12 million tons, and almost 11 million in 1971. As a result, Idyll believes, the anchovy stocks are so depleted that they may take years...
John Brode '52 has demonstrated a unique concern for the problems confronting this city, especially those stemming from the greed of real estate developers. He feels strongly about the need for community control over development and the police...
Investors may be better served that way, the author admits, but such a setup will be too impersonal to nurture the moral melodrama that Brooks loves. He probably need not worry, though. Greed, ambition and willful refusal to face reality are constants, quite capable of being programmed into computers (as shareholders of Equity Funding have discovered). Burned investors of, say, 1983 will still need a Brooks to tell them how it was done...