Word: greeding
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...raffles, lotteries, Monte Carlo nights and bingo to make ends meet. Priests often consider gambling demeaning, if not immoral, but their parishes need it. The annual $15,000 or so it provides may keep the parish school open. One priest explains, "Bingo isn't a sign of greed. It's a confession of defeat-an admission that the parish can't keep its head above water...
...materials waiting beyond the imperialist walls? How much by the impulse to do "the right thing," and how much by the desire to disengage from the imperialists and win friends among the new nations? Granted, the policy flopped. But was it the failure of principles, or the failure of greed? In this case, the two reinforced each other. Ulam makes no distinctions...
...stand on issues has been consistently bold, if occassionally contradictory, and the idealism of his Robin Hood program does not blind him to the reality of human greed...
...Grade story. As Britain's most prominent show-business entrepreneur, jowly, Goldwynesque Lew Grade enjoys a following that is not so much doting as anecdoting. His custom-made, 7¾-in. Cuban cigars are an indispensable prop of cartoonists. His multimillion-dollar deals get him lampooned as "Low Greed" in the satirical magazine Private Eye. He even has his own favorite story about himself. It concerns a little girl who asked him if he knew what two and two make. "Buying or selling?" he replied. It is no truer than most of the stories about him, but it imparts...
There was not any direct revenue to be gathered. Broadcasters operated on a shoestring--the medium was not expected to pay for itself, but to increase equipment sales. When the AT & T chain tried to institute a time-toll system of broadcasting (more out of laziness than greed), it was left with empty air-time: advertisers had neither the knowledge or studios to produce their own programs. In fact, the British broadcasting plan, by which a tax on radio equipment provided a broadcasting fund, was seriously debated for American broadcasting through the spring of 1923. Because of hostilities between radio...