Word: conscienceless
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...their lot in with the men who go to any length and support any government, to maximize profits. As long as corporation directors piously claim that their only concern should be to multiply the dollars of their investors. Harvard's acquiescence must be taken only as support for their conscienceless arguments...
...many Americans, an end of innocence. The U.S. was still the world's pre-eminent power, still reveled in the accouterments of prosperity, still enjoyed a standard of living far more abundant than that of any other civilization. But 1967 awakened many of its citizens to the fact that conscienceless affluence can not only despoil the environment and drive a deprived underclass to the brink of rebellion; it can also pervade society with a sense of impotence and bring on the loss of unifying purpose...
...jailers in the big prison at Vincennes called him Monsieur le 6. The name of the arrogant prisoner in the tower had not yet become an eponym for conscienceless cruelty, but there was something about him that the warders did not like, and they preferred to poke his dinner to him through a trapdoor in the floor...
...than business executives; priests have less?but this may be a reflection of their having found a certainty of faith and of a rigid routine that conceals if it does not catharize anxiety. Convicts have far less than average. This reflects both routine and the high prison population of conscienceless psychopaths. Least anxious of all, on the Cattell-Sheier scale, are university administrators...
...analysis of the cold war by Edwin L. Dale Jr. is a scholarly one, but it seems to overlook [Communism's] conscienceless will to use brute force in gaining what it seeks if everything else fails. The fact that "Europe is vigorous and thriving and fully with us" is hardly comforting in the light of Russia's ability to overrun it, in a matter of days, if she so chooses, at the same time delivering us a crippling blow to ward off any opposition. At any given moment, Russia has that physical and psychological edge...