Word: greeds
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...skeptics still doubt that the 1980s were an era of mindless greed on Wall Street, Dennis Levine's account of his rise and fall as an inside trader should set them straight. Levine, a megadeal meister for the now bankrupt Wall Street firm Drexel Burnham Lambert, raked in more than $10 million through the simple expedient of buying and selling stock with the help of inside tips. Arrested in 1986 and jailed for 17 months in a minimum-security prison, he led prosecutors to arbitrager Ivan Boesky, who, in turn, helped them reel in the biggest fish of all -- junk...
...current lax regulatory climate, which the Bush Administration fosters, lawsuits often represent the only way to enforce corporate accountability. As consumer lawyer Linda Lipsen says, "You can't stand Corporate America before a blackboard and have them write 100 times: 'I will not put issues of greed over issues of public safety.' " The cozy pattern of self-regulation among some professional groups, like doctors, only compounds the litigation problem. Legal critic Charles Peters, the editor of the Washington Monthly, argues that this means "there is no effective discipline for misconduct by a physician other than the malpractice suit...
...frailty. By way of science or theology, arguments Pavlovian or Paulinian, we diminish their horrors as we seek guarantees of forgiveness for our own capacity for error. We do this even though we know that humanity's "errors" -- our bigotry or anger or lust or selfishness or greed -- will go on churning out the accursed creatures. Like our forebears, we have got in the habit of monsters. If we are to escape their terror, we must not distort their significance. If they frighten us, we must remember why. Otherwise, monstrum and remonstrance fade from memory, and we gain not even...
...narcotraficantes, while Washington and other capitals turned a blind eye. "This is a story of big-time, big-money con artists," said Massachusetts Democrat John Kerry, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee that held the two-day hearings. "It's a story of international lawlessness and extraordinary greed, which is becoming the centerpiece of recent history...
...third big theme is snooping. Just as South Africa's government engages in constant surveillance, so, in McClure's vision, do its citizens spy on one another, usually out of jealousy or greed. The consequences are often fatal. This peeping and prying is a focus of The Steam Pig and of two other memorable entries: The Caterpillar Cop and The Gooseberry Fool. Fittingly, Zondi and Kramer meet in The Song Dog after surreptitiously trailing each other, each in search of clues to his own case...