Word: covetous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...liberal as to make him completely unacceptable to conservatives. He passed the Administration's loyalty test, for example, by voting for the ABM. He attracted some support because his victory would leave open the minority whip's job, which a number of Senators in all factions covet...
...walls. Habitues include the rich, the powerful and the famous, plus thousands of others who flock there to see or be seen, attracted as much by the mystique as the cuisine. A hamburger lunch may cost $14 with a drink or two, yet industrialists, movie stars and social celebrities covet "territorial rights" to "21" 's hard-to-get tables. Their patronage helps the club to earn a substantial profit on revenues of some $4,500,000 a year...
...George) William Miller, 43, heads Textron Inc., the oldest and one of the soundest conglomerates, and he is an articulate critic of racier companies. Textron, which started the conglomerate trend nearly two decades ago, has acquired the kind of image that newer conglomerates covet. Miller picked up two more companies last year ?Talon zippers and Fafnir bearings?but Textron seems less interested in acquiring new branches than in managing and expanding the many that it already has. Its 33 diverse divisions turn out Bell helicopters, Sheaffer pens, Speidel watchbands, Gorham silverware, Bostitch staplers and some 70 other products. Last...
...earmarked as its own as part of a 1958 statehood land grant. Udall has insisted on holding the ranges in escrow until there is a settlement of claims by Alaska's 55,000 Indians, Aleuts and Eskimos, who argue that the land was originally theirs. Oil companies covet leases to 58 million of the disputed acres that are part of the Arctic North Slope field, the largest known pool of oil in the U.S. (reserves estimated at well over 5 billion bbl.). After Nixon named him to the Cabinet, Hickel promised: "What Udall can do by executive order...
...decision with an ardor that has increased as smaller Guyana became an independent nation and after Venezuela itself built highways, a steel mill, an aluminum plant and what will eventually be one of the world's largest hydroelectric projects on its side of the boundary. The Venezuelans particularly covet the bauxite and manganese in the disputed area, and last year even built a military base on Guyanese territory as a step toward enforcing the claim...