Word: greeds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...jolt. We've come to expect shocks from DiFranco--she's a rock maverick, a singer who owns her own label (Righteous Babe Records of Buffalo, New York), who refuses to sign to a major record company and who performs often raucous punk-folk songs about music-industry greed, abortion and her own bisexuality. DiFranco is so fiercely protective of her work that she was miffed when a recent cover of one of her songs, 32 Flavors, by newcomer Alana Davis added a few lyrics (Davis' rendition, by the way, is terrific). But what's truly surprising about the first...
...play politics with my planet. In the face of vast amounts of evidence about global warming, these Neros would fiddle while the earth literally burns. There may come a time when common citizens seek justice for the suffering wrought by environmental criminals. In the current atmosphere of rampant greed, it may be difficult to imagine such a scenario. But unless some form of enlightenment quickly spurs the leaders of all nations to adopt measures even stricter than those agreed to in Kyoto, the tribunals are inevitable, and there will be nowhere for the guilty to hide. The earth...
...Committee, formed in 1996, consists of members from various sectors of the health care community. In addition to the evening forum, the Committee staged a second Boston Tea Party yesterday afternoon in which health care providers dumped crates painted with the words' corporate greed,' 'loss of confidence' and 'declining care' into the harbor...
...sardonic God invented negligence lawyers. Russell Banks, author of the novel from which Atom Egoyan derived The Sweet Hereafter, has, however, improved on His handiwork, creating in Mitchell Stephens (Ian Holm) a man who chases settlements with a chills-and-fever passion that can be explained not by greed but by the suppurating wounds life has inflicted on him. The man, whom Holm plays with superbly controlled fanaticism, wants compensation from an unfair universe but finds momentary relief in squeezing more readily available targets...
...biggest and most confounding art heist in American history is 7 1/2 years old and juicier than ever. Organized crime, politics, greed, international intrigue and an execution-style hit all lie at the margins of the story. This one has everything but sex, and maybe even that--after all, the story is still unraveling. Each week brings private powwows among the players, new hopes, old frustrations and the same beating refrain...