Word: covetous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...incest," warns psychiatrist Domeena Renshaw of Loyola School of Medicine, in Chicago. "That child is beginning to blossom, and will sometimes compete with the natural parent." Freudian theory holds that the earliest erotic impulses are incestuous; young boys unconsciously rival their father for their mother's affection, while daughters covet their father, a normal process in development known, in boys and girls respectively, as the Oedipus and Electra complexes. One therapist wonders whether Soon-Yi may never have resolved such early longings and might now be replacing her mother as the father's lover...
...such pocketbook arguments for liberalized trade aren't convincing enough, there are some compelling political ones. The countries in Latin America, Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union now groping toward economic liberalism covet GATT membership as a way to reinforce market-oriented reforms ) and to win foreign investment. It would be unfortunate for GATT to wither and die just as these countries are joining...
Oilmen argue that the failure to open such reserves will only speed the move overseas and increase U.S. dependence on imports. Marathon Oil Co. is pouring nearly three-fourths of its $750 million current production budget into foreign ventures. "Other countries covet our technology and the jobs we bring, and they're luring us with sweet deals," says Marathon president Victor Beghini, "while our government is turning its back...
...UNTIL you see three Macintosh screens. Smoke enough crack to make Marion Barry's drug habit look like a day at the beach. Have sex, lots of sex, in many different places, in many different positions--and preferably with many different people of many different genders and species. Steal. Covet. Lust. commit adultery. dishonor your father and mother (the best method is to tell them about all the guilt they made you feel as a child). And, if necessary, kill-roommates, advisors, cheerful juniors, people who finished their theses a month early are all legitimate targets. Sin is everything...
...source of magic squares, pool-table pyramids, and various patterns that reproduce themselves indefinitely. Most of us, however, know it on less formal terms: as a friend to decision making (9 judges on the Supreme Court) and the key to the heavens (9 planets and 9 Muses). Statisticians covet it -- since if all 9 members of a baseball team have 9 at bats (in any number of 9-inning games), their batting averages can be computed instantaneously (2 for 9 is .222, 3 for 9 is .333, 4 for 9 is .444, and so on, through the order...