Word: greeds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jordan's involvement in the smuggling is illicit, but greed inspired a willingness to brave the consequences of violating the U.N. strictures imposed after the gulf war. Until a few weeks ago, truck convoys from Jordan transported 6,000 tons of goods a day into Iraq, but only about 70% were the food and medicine permitted by the U.N. The remainder, say U.S. intelligence officials, consisted of materials Saddam has used to rebuild the infrastructure damaged by allied bombs...
Lead vocalist Mike Patton growls, screeches and roars his way through songs making not-so-subtle commentary on greed, complacency and selfishness. It's easy to laugh at the skewering of a thirtysomething character in the midtempo funk-rocker Midlife Crisis who derives her sense of security from her "pockets jingling" and is wrapped in "morbid self-attention...
...play breaks its one-dimensional approach at one point in the second act, when Senator Ham talks to the phosphorescent woman. Hum does have compassion for one group--the people of his poor state--and his greed and ruthlessness are partly based on a fear that he will be poor again someday. Money for farmers is more important to him than money for Eastern liberal artists who despise him for his Southern, lower-class roots...
Deans, department chairs and professors often harbor an exaggerated conception of their "needs," and even the tweediest academics can succumb to the human emotion of greed...
...cuts and deregulation that became known as Reaganomics and hurled anathemas at heretics who argued that the government had a positive role to play in the U.S. economy. While Bartley's polemics sometimes clashed with facts reported in the Journal's news columns, which were full of tales of greed and corruption in the executive suite, they provided comfort to many of the paper's conservative readers...