Word: greeds
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...hard-hitting ad, which was pulled off the air after only four showings, caused dissension within Washington's already fragmented campaign staff. But the candidate was unfazed. With rising adrenaline, he spent 16-hr. days stumping in white, black and Hispanic areas, assailing the "greed merchants" who feed off the city's patronage trough. Through it all he remained upbeat. What had he learned about himself? "I have infinitely more patience than I thought...
Gage tells these stories vividly, unsparingly. He is equally candid about the catastrophic effects of his grandfather's hardheartedness, his uncle's greed, his father's preference for being a family man in Greece but a bachelor in America. During passages in which he debates inconclusively the nature of justice, Gage admits his own base impulses: he smuggled a gun into Greece in order to murder the now aged "judge" who had condemned his mother. At the last moment, having spat in the man's face, Gage renounced the crime because it would put his gratification...
...public policy to bring it into line with medical understanding. Dr. Tod Mikuriya, formerly in charge of cannabis research for the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), asserted that we have--"not a drug problem--we're dealing with a problem based upon ignorance, denial, hypocrisy, and special-interest greed." He recommended comprehensive drug law reform, including the "repeal of all exemptions from product liability laws for alcohol and tobacco," and having an assigned risk for the liabilities they cause. He also suggested a repeal of all excise taxes dealing with drugs and alcohol, saying "Sin taxes are the erasure...
...greedy for wanting to use my earnings as I see fit? Am I greedy for desiring that my wages not be siphoned off by politicians whose policies I abhor? If so, then perhaps "greed" is not so bad after...
...grand story of art and consciousness and history, it is also the not-so-grand story of the artist. Thomas presents the irritating structure and forms of writing itself--bursts of creativity, exhaustion, editors, censorship; each of his storytellers reveals one side of the complete artist, and their greed and selfishness are an essential part of any artist or indeed any person. These poets grab at life, they are greedy to create, to live. They, like all people, deny death by creating--through sex, through writing, through life itself...