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...Congo Brazzaville and Teodoro Obiang of Equatorial Guinea - are also under investigation, and the French have made inquiries into the assets of Jose Eduardo dos Santos of Angola and Blaise Compaoré of Burkina Faso. Like Bongo, all have denied any wrongdoing. But Bongo was one of the greediest and, coming to power at 31 in 1967, just seven years after Gabon's independence, one of the first. As such, he set and maintained the catastrophically low standard for African leadership that would ensure that a continent bursting with natural resources would remain the poorest and most war-ravaged place...
...attractiveness to investors hinged on the greed of its government. Judging from this example, those firms that do get their money’s worth in Central Asia will be the lucky few. And they are likely to be Chinese, since it is seldom wise even for the greediest of Central Asian bureaucrats to anger a larger, more powerful neighbor’s state-owned enterprises when they are busily investing in your country’s natural resources...
...Internet start-ups draw the best and brightest--or at least the greediest--away from myriad industries, off-line firms ranging from investment banking to media have been forced to increase compensation to keep pace. The latest manifestation of the new wage order is in the legal profession, where promising young attorneys have been abandoning their law firms for Internet start...
...Genius, Shocker, Lip-Topiarist: though he once turned down an American businessman's proposal to open a string of what would be called Dalicatessens, there was little else he refused to endorse, from chocolates to perfumes. He was surrounded by fakes and crooks and married to one of the greediest harpies in Europe: Gala, who made him the indentured servant of his lost talent even / as he treated her as his muse...
...while the major league's players and owners were arguing about who could be the greediest group of people in America's favorite sport, it was the poor fans who were paying the price...