Word: venal
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...Loma Linda doctors did not. Hence the unease. One does not have to impute venal motives-a desire for glory or a lust for publicity-to wonder about the ethics of the choice. The motive was science, the research imperative. Priority was accorded to the claims of the future, of children not yet stricken, not yet even born...
...impact zones" that some fear that Los Angeles drivers (those who have not fled town) may be shortly lulled into resuming their ordinary ways. They could even come to the Games. Local newspapers burst with ads for tickets of every stripe, not all placed by overambitious travel agents or venal speculators. Not a few poor fans misunderstood the system or unstrategically overordered and have landed them selves in the ticket-brokering business on a big scale. A brisk market also developed in team pins, something of an Olympic tradition. "It's not like just a football game or something...
Meese's intimates insist he was careless, not venal. "He was trying to live up to the Joneses, and the Joneses felt sorry for him," says one, referring to the loans Meese got from friends. Even so, Meese's dream of being Attorney General is clearly on hold. "I see a hurt in his eyes," says his old friend Republican Senator Paul Laxalt of Nevada. "He seems bewildered. He can't understand how this could happen...
...nervous Laurence Olivier made his entrance in The Green Bay Tree, on opening night, Harris said to him backstage, "Goodbye, Larry. I hope I never see you again." (Olivier would later model his stage and screen characterizations of the monstrous Richard III on Harris. "I thought of the most venal person I knew," he said.) After Actress Margaret Sulla van, one of the many women in Harris' life, married Film Director William Wyler, Harris phoned their house and whispered to Wyler, "You're a weak, untalented man married to a woman who is in love with...
...large segment of the public that has come to see the press as primarily interested in its own profits and renown. "There is no longer a prevailing feeling that the press is righting to right a wrong," says Chicago Attorney Don Reuben. "The sense is that the press is venal, out to make a buck...