Word: greeds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...incriminating TRW documents to peddle at the Soviet embassy in Mexico City. To Boyce, writes New York Times Reporter Robert Lindsey, "his job in the Black Vault became an opportunity to take a saber stroke at both the world's superpowers at once ... and Daulton had had the greed to serve his purpose...
Adani, a Levantine of unspecified nationality, contains all the ruthlessness, greed, ill temper and bad manners heretofore ascribed to some Jewish studio heads. The unfortunate result is to create two stereotypes where one is more than enough. The characterization nevertheless has its uses. Adani sends a class operator to California to make a deal with Farber. He bears the elegant name of Guy Barrere and a resume that includes the Columbia University School of Journalism and Rolling Stone...
...world have a rich patina of history. Jews, Christians and Muslims, all "People of the Book," draw much of their faith from the same sources. Yet from the time of the Muslim conquests and the Crusades, West and Islam have confronted each other by turns in attitudes of incomprehension, greed, fanaticism, prurient interest, fear and loathing. The drama has lost none of its historic tension in the stagecraft of the Ayatullah Khomeini. "This is not a struggle between the United States and Iran," he has told the faithful. "It is a struggle between Islam and the infidel." At such moments...
...fact that Science for the People has acted as it has is persuasive to many that there is at least an element of truth in their accusations. As there is no truth to them, what motivates SFTP? Their own ideology places emphasis on class interest--or, more simply, greed--as an explanation for why people behave as they do. But as we all know, but due to personal transgression are hesitant to say, there are are many other kinds of greed which we, especially in academic communities, are involved in: the greed for attention, the greed for self-righteousness...
...remote root of the conflict was idealism, the immediate cause, greed. Afrikaners-Dutch Calvinist settlers-had been in South Africa for 150 years when the British took over the Cape of Good Hope during the Napoleonic Wars. In the 1830s parliamentary idealists in London decreed an end to slavery in the Empire, and some of the Afrikaners, dependent on their slaves, trekked into the wilderness to the north. The leaders of these trekboers (wandering farmers) founded two independent republics, the Transvaal and the Orange Free State. No one but the native blacks would have cared had not a rich diamond...