Word: greeds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...valor, wonder and an appreciation that the earth is one intricate ecosystem by which all of life is shaped. They are Heroes for the Planet (though they would hardly think of themselves as such), and they have gladly taken on the task of protecting the natural world from stupidity, greed and careless commerce...
...real crowd displeaser. So it was a nervy step to buy the U.K.'s most popular soccer team, Manchester United, and thus earn the ire of all those British soccer fans. The $1 billion purchase brought on predictably apoplectic headlines from the British tabs--including MURDOCH MOST FOUL and GREED 4, HONESTY 1--and threats from fan associations and former players that they will stop supporting the team. The kerfuffle is in sharp contrast to the blase reaction when Murdoch bought the Los Angeles Dodgers for a piddling $350 million. Is there something Dodger fans don't know...
...earthquakes should, by statistical rights, only increase. Furiously researched and slashingly argued, this book is a 30-bell alarm by L.A. obsessive Davis (City of Quartz), who contends that most of the "acts of God" that have wrought such destruction in that city are, in fact, the results of greed, myopia and Machiavellian politicking. Upholders of the status quo will take issue with Davis' provocations, but the facts and terrifying statistics marshaled here should have folks racing for the next plane to Seattle...
...well: some younger Navajo accuse the landowners, many of them tribal elders, of selling out. "The older people always say human life is more important than material things," says LaJuanna Daye, a health-care worker, "but here they have the chance to prove it, and all we see is greed...
...exist only on virtual e-mail lists. We don't even have enough people at meetings to share a pizza. We are not organized. We don't sit around plotting ways to take over the campus and secretly infiltrate a socially-conscious Harvard with the seeds of selfishness and greed...