Word: greeds
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...sign held by a Red Sox fan at Wednesday's Fenway opener was accurate. "How quickly we forget," it read. We should not be so quick to dismiss the greed and corruption of the past with token gestures by the players and the owners...
...Black Sox Scandal was a betrayal of the average American sports fan. In much the same way, the recent baseball strike has mocked the loyalty of today's fans. Both incidents showed players and owners placing greed above the integrity of the game...
...wisdom of decisions Iacocca made for the company when he ran it, there is grumbling now that their former boss, susceptible to Kerkorian's unwholesome charms, is putting the company in jeopardy to satisfy his own ambition. "They are shocked and pissed,'' says one board member. "It's '80s greed vs. '90s forward-thinking management. Iacocca's involvement is really getting under people's skin.'' Certainly there's a prospect of money in the deal for him. For all his wealth-$200 million at last estimate-Iacocca has never been able to move as an equal among the billionaire financiers...
...bracing display of business- world vices, the implosion of W.R. Grace & Co. is hard to beat. For one thing, it has intimations of greed. J. Peter Grace, the ailing 81-year-old chairman, announced his resignation amid disclosures about hundreds of thousands of dollars in company money that had been paid for private security guards, nursing care and the upkeep of a $2 million Manhattan apartment. And of course it has a whiff of treachery. Behind the internal inquiry that led to the patriarch's undoing was chief executive officer J.P. Bolduc, 55, the very person Grace had groomed...
Your cover [March 13] featured two stories: one was billed Ego and Greed," about Nick Leeson, and the other was the Special Report on the candidates for the 1996 presidential race. Until I took a closer look, I thought the two titles were for the same story. After all, the presidential race is about ego and greed. The only difference between Leeson and the presidential candidates is that Leeson spent the bank's money whereas the candidates want to use American taxpayers' money! Edward Zinkin Rochester, New York AOL: EdwardZ...