Word: greeding
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Stein has often voiced criticism of the major forces in the market. He condemns the amateurism and greed of brokerage-house partners who took out virtually all the profits when times were good and who now have difficulty surviving when times are glum. He maintains that the New York Stock Exchange has followed rather than led the pace of change and modernization. He holds that the Securities and Exchange Commission, partly because it is understaffed, waits too long to attack some obvious problems in the securities business...
After that, certain concessions were made to the notion of also controlling the more conspicuous greed of the average industrialist...
...have to be funny doing it. Playing outpatients of Dr. Strangelove, he and his Tweedledummy Colonel Cathcart (Martin Balsam) italicize every punch line. Even their faces are overstatements. As General Dreedle, Orson Welles sweeps past like Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, all plastic and gas. Dreedle need only have GREED lettered across his middle to complete the cartoon...
...intelligence inherent in this present college generation, I was amazed to read of those of our nation's youth who, being blessed with the best of educations and living in a society that for the greatest part is free of poverty and hardship, fell victim to their own greed, stupidity and complete lack of morality, as put forth in your article titled "Americans Abroad" [April...
...York, but their father, a pioneer union organizer, and their generous German mother laid out food and shelter for needy friends and strangers alike. Dan joined the Jesuits, Phil the Josephites, an order that works mainly in ghetto areas. Both priests deeply distrust private property because of the greed that it provokes in humanity. Phil, the polemicist, is gregarious and outgoing-a tall, brawny, bear-hugging Burt Lancaster of a man, given to warm laughter amid healthy belts of rye. Dan, the poet, is slighter-a cross between Charles Aznavour and Steve McQueen. In conversation, his eyes often seem...