Word: venality
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...Each had a similarly convoluted rationale. One said he wasn't stealing but was "simply borrowing from friends I don't know all over the world." Many resented buying an album when all they wanted was one song. One raged against the Man, saying it's "payback time" against venal record companies. Only a few owned up to what I suspect is the real reason: it's virtually impossible to get caught. While few of these people would, for example, help themselves to books or stereos if they could hack into amazon.com music is different. It's ephemeral...
Every generation thinks that the youth culture of its successors is venal, he said, adding that “Ralph Nader and Pat Buchanan should wake up and realize they...
...party, killing at least 10. It was one more loud warning that to maintain order over the long term, Brazil has little choice but to tackle its epic social inequality, which is the worst in Latin America, if not the world. Brazil's fractious and venal political system is usually the last place to look for real leadership on this or any other issue. But these days, alongside images of the Rio bloodshed, there's an uncommon sight that even Brazilian politicians apparently can't ignore: the nation's World Cup-champion football team Sporting Fome Zero (Zero Hunger...
...full of bravado and a species of idealism. Fowler, with his Vietnamese mistress (Do Thi Hai Yen) and his fondness for opium, is the resident sage and cynic. The subversive tactics of an American friend (Brendan Fraser) stir him to make a fatal decision for reasons both noble and venal...
America's past imperial ventures, to be sure, have generally been less venal and exploitative than those of the Europeans. And the Bush Administration has disavowed any intention of becoming an imperial power of the traditional kind. Even Richard Perle, the Pentagon adviser who for years has argued for regime change in Iraq, recently denounced imperialist ambitions in an interview with the French newspaper Le Figaro. "It is quite simply impossible," said Perle, "to prove that the United States has behaved in an imperialist manner." Yet as Max Boot of the Council on Foreign Relations argues, "Nobody wants to acquire...