Word: greeds
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People must battle the problems that lead to environmental destruction, including "greed, poverty, and ignorance," he said. "Conservation is not a biological issue, it is a people issue...
...Many people feel that Drexel Burnham Lambert epitomized raw greed in the 1980s and that there is poetic justice in its demise...
Lynch's importance to Magellan -- and to all of Wall Street -- went far beyond the buying and selling of any one week. At a time when heroes are few and many financial wizards have seemed obsessed by greed and ambition, Lynch was a reassuring presence, a homespun stock picker who disdained the pretensions of the experts and regularly beat them all. His 1989 best seller, One Up on Wall Street, made him almost a household name. "Lynch was more than a great money manager," says Donald Phillips, editor of the Chicago-based newsletter Mutual Fund Values. "He was a credible...
...also the ultimate sellout. Donald J. Trump is a money-mongering megalomaniac. Greed incarnate. A symbol of the decline of Western civilization. A union-busting, low-income tenantevicting real estate speculator. One of Them...
That label won't stick on "mainstream" Clinton. Comfortable being whisked off in a limousine in the evening to Antoine's by lobbyists for RJR Nabisco, the quintessential symbol of 1980s corporate greed, he can then preach Democratic values in the morning. Clinton is the perfect front man for an organization that celebrates the work ethic of the common man while relying almost entirely on the Fortune 500 for operating funds. Although Clinton has recovered from his stupefyingly long prime-time address at the 1988 convention, he is still a techno-Democrat, one of a dozen...