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Beyond the accountants' ken, though, there are less clearly observable reasons. "Greed, gre-e-ed, gre-e-e-e-ed," murmurs Boris Kostelanetz, 71, who was born in Leningrad when it was still St. Petersburg and is now the senior partner of Kostelanetz & Ritholz in Manhattan. He savors his own repetition of the word, but he feels that greed is not always or necessarily the motive. Says he: "Greed means you want to keep money and spend it on yourself. For tax evasion there is something else at work. People who don't file tax returns...
...makes you wonder if what you worked at all these years was a lie." Another RIF victim echoed, "I was shaped by JFK. I went into the Peace Corps. I have actively chosen not to work for profit. Now the public interest seems to have to do with greed and bombers and tax breaks for big business...
...SHORT-SIGHTED greed-motivated demands for protectionism must be added another ugly element: xenophobia. A sign in front of a UAW headquarters reads "U.S. and Canadian vehicles only. Please park imports elsewhere." For some reason, Canadian cars (which we import in large numbers) don't count as imports, but the Japanese cars do. Mondale reflects this attitude when he asks, "What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers and spend a lifetime serving McDonald's hamburgers...
Until recently, thoughts of China seemed primarily to stimulate greed in Americans. Businessmen's dreams featured visions of one billion users of Ivory Soap and prophylactics. A National Geographic article in the 1920s spoke of the Chinese as demeaned outlets for American production. Unfortunately, public evaluation of such possibilities has lagged greatly behind that of businessmen, most of whom have come to realize that the Chinese consumer is likely to remain overwhelmingly rural and impoverished...
...this, Aspen needs to convince itself that its old ways will no longer work. "Greed dominates the town. There was an arrogance toward tourists that used to prevail," said Thomas Richardson, the former president of the Aspen Skiing Corp. "People put their heads in the sand and said, 'We're the best.' Suddenly, we're not No. 1 any more. Now Aspen has a reputation as a rip-off community." The town's troubles are not likely to lead to a bust similar to the one Aspen experienced after Congress repealed the Sherman Silver-Purchase...