Word: greeds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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About 25 janitors attended the rally, bearing signs that read, "Greed is a disease and Harvard is a sick institution," and chanting, "Hey Harvard, you've got cash, why do you pay your workers trash...
...exist in a dismal, colorless world run by evil and greed. Suddenly, a streak of orange blazes across the sky. It's a plane, it's superman.... No, it's a bird...
...heroes set out to find it. In the course of their journey they encounter members of the Iraqi resistance who have been abandoned by President Bush's policy. Eventually the squad--besides Clooney it includes Mark Wahlberg, Ice Cube and rookie Spike Jonze as their sidekick--must choose between greed and helping their new friends escape Saddam's clutches. That choice is pretty much a no-brainer...
...from the old mentality to the new--the trip being, in part, a symptom of American cultural change. The transition, as of 1999, is incomplete. Old Thinking still has plenty of adherents. New Thinking may not prove to be entirely a story of virtue triumphant over death-peddling greed; it may instead merely introduce new forms of consumer taxation (higher cigarette prices) and lawyer enrichment, while people go on smoking and dying as before...
Although engaging in endeavors of risk may certainly be thrilling for the individual, the dangerous consequences (especially of risky sexual behavior) affect the lives of not only the risk takers but also the families, partners and friends. An underlying sense of selfishness and greed pervades many forms of risk that know no limits. CHARLES LAUTH New York City...