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...fear that the battle against cancer has turned into a study of greed. I am 60, and I have been watching family members die from cancer all my life, among them nonsmokers with lung cancer. I believe scientists could find a cure, but if they did, how many people would no longer be needed? Cancer has become big, big business. S. Michael Long, Levittown...
...companies going bankrupt or merging, and health care made unavailable as a result of cost. Suggesting that borrowing to live is the cause of the Wall Street collapse when the 400 richest people in the U.S. have as much money as several million average citizens shows ignorance of the greed and avarice controlling this country. Paul A. Heller, Washington, Michigan...
...case, warnings had been sounded for some time, including from inside the company. In an internal memo published in Australia's Fairfax newspapers in August, a disgruntled executive complained of a "culture of greed." In other companies, he wrote, "acquired projects are actually required to generate a certain benchmark return before bonus payouts take place. Instead, we have created an environment where senior people are rewarded for ... ginning up rosy projections to justify their rewards...
...fear that the battle against cancer has turned into a study of greed. I am 60, and I have been watching family members die from cancer all my life, among them nonsmokers with lung cancer. I believe scientists could find a cure, but if they did, how many people would no longer be needed? Cancer has become big, big business. S. Michael Long, LEVITTOWN...
...match, could be measured by the outpouring of rage from scandalized French politicians. They were falling over one another to express outrage and find effective sanctions against those responsible, and deterrence against any recurrence. Ironically, it took the politicians longer to give coherent expression to their anger over the greed-driven global financial crisis than it did to excoriate some rambunctious soccer fans...