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What has been said about my mother however, is not correct; she did the best she could when she was running the company, particularly since she was surrounded by incompetence and greed...
...reality is a little more complicated. Not only do politicians rarely have a clear notion of the technical features of their own legislation, Grieder claims, but they also are usually powerless against the forces that distort and emasculate even the most comprehensive proposals--inertia, political horse-trading, special interest greed, and just plain human error. In such an "anarchic" milieu, Grieder says, grand conceptions about "the way the world works"--in Stockman's case, supply-side economics--fall by the wayside, and their beliefs lapse into cynical despair...
...depicted Edwin Wilson, 54, not as an undercover agent but as a skilled, avaricious wheeler-dealer, exploiting contacts and expertise built up after years of "Company" service. After deliberating only 4½ hours, the five-man, seven-woman jury last week sided with the prosecutor's views that greed, not patriotism, had led Wilson to export an M-16 automatic rifle and three pistols from the U.S. to Libya in 1979. It convicted him on seven counts of arranging to transport the guns, samples of a promised larger shipment that later won him a $22 million contract...
...Lorean's arrest last week was more than a self-inflicted personal tragedy. It inspired charges among the cynical that corporate greed knew no ethical bounds. It touched off a furious row in Britain's Parliament, where a formal inquiry was launched into how the government could have let itself be used by an American highflyer at such cost to its treasury. Protested Sir William Clark, chairman of the Conservative Party's backbench finance committee: "This is absolutely monstrous; it shows that to pump public money into businesses merely to create jobs can be disastrous...
...symbolic concessions while maintaining its present administrative control. Noted a British diplomat: "This would replace the fiction that Hong Kong is part of Britain with the fiction that it is part of China." That is as good an idea as any. Indeed, with that characteristic Hong Kong mix of greed and imagination, vendors are already selling T shirts emblazoned with the message "2096 OK" next to a crossed...