Word: greeds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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STEWART'S BOOK TELLS NOT ONLY OF A bad investment but also of greed, growing elitism and viciousness on the part of Hillary Clinton, and total ineptitude, inattention and lack of personal responsibility on the part of Bill Clinton. RICHARD ENGEBRETSEN JR. Barnegat, New Jersey...
...their real talent--for publicity--the Sex Pistols announced a reunion tour last week, complete with shameless p.r. stunts like an offer to hold a benefit concert for Princess Di. A bit too wrinkled to carry off anarchic rage these days, the Pistols nevertheless do a good impression of greed. "We don't see eye to eye," says Johnny Rotten of his band members. "But we have a common interest: your money...
...Party's guiding lights, was infamous for such enlightened remarks as, "Did [Jefferson] dream that in 100 years or less...red-eyed Jewish millionaires would be chiefs of that [Democratic] Party, and that the liberty and prosperity of the country would be...constantly and corruptly sacrificed to Plutocratic greed in the name of Jeffersonian Democracy?" And he was not alone...
...Michael Eisner (to join him as No. 2 man at Disney). "Barry has had these unbelievable silver trays offered to him, and he's always said no," says his best friend, designer Diane Von Furstenberg. Why no? "He's not a pig," she explains. "It's not about greed with him. It's ambition, it's vision, and that makes him different and makes him a nice person." An interesting theory: ambition leads to niceness...
...coalition like it was falling apart. Attracted to his relaxed views on abortion and homosexuality, social libertarians went for Forbes; values conservatives for Buchanan; supply siders for Forbes; deficit hawks for Dole; anxious economic nationalists for Buchanan, who invited angry Democrats in union halls to "join the party of greed" long enough to help him hijack the nomination. Even Lamar Alexander could claim to be a credible contender--the new safe choice--by being less mean than Dole and Forbes, less Beltway than Dole and Gramm and less disruptive to the party than Forbes and Buchanan. When Republican leaders talk...