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Even if space had arrived soon enough for Mr. Clarke, millions would still be leading starved and stunted lives. Hunger is the result of man's greed and injustice, not of limited resources. If we have rich and poor nations-and rich and poor within nations-what's to stop our children in space from having rich and poor planets? The worst is yet to come...
...problem of leadership in the U.S. goes far beyond the Oval Office, stultifying progress at every level of American society. But Carter was the man at the top, where he had so desperately wanted to be, and Americans were blaming him now for the exhaustion of oilfields, the greed of Arabs and their own insatiability; they were blaming him for much more history than he should be held accountable for. Still, they were right to judge Carter harshly as a leader. In fact, he seems to have judged himself just as severely, as he suggested in his address...
Somoza's greed eventually cost him the support of Nicaragua's business elite. After the 1972 earthquake that leveled Managua and killed 10,000 of its residents, Somoza began moving into areas that the dynasty had previously left untapped. He set up a company that held a monopoly on supplying paving stones for miles of new roads in the capital. Moreover, Tacho and his cronies made killings by selling land to the government that was used for new developments to replace the residential areas that the quake had destroyed...
...late 19th century, deliberately set out to shock and horrify the conventional polite society of his time. Some of the melodramatic trappings of his play stem from his desire to force members of what he saw as a stuffy and hypocritical society to recognize the sex, passion and greed that lay at the foundation of their relationships. In Lulu, Wedekind describes the rise and fall of a peculiarly passionless beauty who works herself into society (and out) with the help of a perverse benefactor. Along the way, all the men she takes as lovers meet tragic and bloody ends...
Afraid that Galante was about to double-cross them, and angered by his greed in muscling in on other families' rackets, New York's most powerful Mafia commissioners met early in July to determine Galante's fate. At that meeting, Dellacroce convinced the others that Galante should be retired more permanently...