Word: mammon
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...though it may unnerve a country accustomed to contentious opinions to face evidence of such astounding unanimity. We ought to know, then, what this long-anticipated re-election means, what it says about America. Do we know? Mondale supporters suggest that we have become a nation of hedonists and Mammon worshipers. Reaganites, that we want a muscular America and Government off our backs. Does anyone here regard things so simply...
...move. "It does not give anyone else in the league the right to move." Though NFL, commissioner Pete Rozelle predicted ruefully that the Davis decision would herald an era of "free agent franchises," he has refused to put the Irsay move to a vote, bowing before the Mammon of professional sport--money. An owner will be understandably reluctant to veto a profitable relocation when he may be the next to require his peers' approval...
Through Susan's ardent temperament and acerbic tongue, Hare has his say on the duplicities of politics, the hypocrisies of business and the corruptive universal worship of Mammon. When Susan enters a loveless match with a middle-level diplomat (Edward Herrmann), Hare seizes his chance to lay down a carnal barrage on a Foreign Office bureaucracy requiring 6,000 men to dismantle an empire that it took 600 men to govern...
Still, in undergraduates with aspirations outside the realm of Mammon will find it hard not to be a little discouraged by the tone that 'runs through Career Insights, in the most condescending way, executive after executive rationalizes about the value of a liberal arts education on their particular side of the boardroom, "A liberal arts background is important for developing good human management skills," writes one industry chairman. "This is what I call 'human' garment...
...Paul. The Holy Father may choose not to do anything until the Holy See's own investigation is completed. Even then the lesson of Paul Marcinkus may prove to be nothing more than what well-intentioned clerics have been learning for centuries: trying to serve both God and mammon can be a difficult task indeed. -By Peter Staler. Reported by Jonathan Beaty/New York and Barry Kalb/Rome with other bureaus...