Word: greeds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jane Byrne, meanwhile, trudged from campaign lunches to dinners and church socials, repeatedly assailing "grease jobs" and "snow jobs" and "deceit" and "greed." Although she was outspent 10 to 1 by the machine, the press amplified her cries. She repeatedly invoked the names of Daley and John F. Kennedy, implying that they would have approved of her fight...
...Byrne gained popularity, Daley appointed her a national Democratic committeewoman. When her mentor suffered a stroke in 1974, she loyally lashed out at those "little men of greed" and "political vultures" who seemed too eager to succeed him. Daley recovered and rewarded Byrne by making her his co-chairman of the powerful Cook County Democratic central committee. She had no illusion of really sharing power with Daley and knew he was mainly meeting national Democratic pressure to upgrade the role of women. But those "little men" at city hall resented her and when Daley died in late 1976, they knocked...
Panic buying has given producing nations tantalizing inducement to raise their long-term contract prices. On the open or "spot" market, where the small percentage of oil not sold under contract is available, frenzied demand has sent prices up to more than $23 per bbl. Further whetting OPEC greed, Britain has boosted its price for North Sea oil by 2% above the cartel level...
Some have made "bad business judgments." Others were "driven by just old-fashioned greed." So said Agriculture Secretary Bob Bergland last week as 4,000 farmers from as far away as Colorado rolled into Washington aboard tractors and campers to press for higher farm price supports. If Bergland's bluntness was startling, so was the demonstrators' cause. Last winter when the small American Agriculture Movement organized its first drive-in at the capital, farm prices were depressed and many U.S. farmers were genuinely strapped. But now the A.A.M. militants, who signaled their arrival by dis rupting traflic...
...Shales, 33, of the Washington Post, and Marvin Kitman, 49, of Newsday, are masters of the lampoon. The new breed can also level their targets with sheer ferocity. One recent example from the Boston Globe's William A. Henry III: "RKO General has run Channel 7 with such greed, arrogance and contempt for the people of Boston that we all ought to stop watching...