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...hook yet. Several big firms settled charges that they had slanted stock research to win investment-banking fees. But other probes continue. If convicted, Quattrone would face a 10-year-maximum prison sentence-and a life sentence as a symbol of a decade's greed...
...Instead, the preferred word, used also in the nine-point joint declaration issued at the end of the seven-hour meeting, was 'natural resources,' suitably neutral and incapable of evoking oil's tumultuous geopolitics of greed and guns...
...They died for their country.” But I would be lying to myself. Those who die in this war will not die for their country. They will die for their government. They will die for Bush and Cheyney and Rumsfeld. And yes, they will die for the greed of the oil cartels, for the expansion of the American empire, for the political ambitions of the President. They will die to cover up the theft of the nation’s wealth to pay for the machines of death...
Fundamentally, The Staff misunderstands the purpose of Harvard’s investments. The University is not a for-profit corporation. It should never hesitate from sacrificing financial profit so as not to compromise its moral integrity. If the University fails to impose limits on its greed, its hands will forever be stained with Crimson blood...
...easy. Saddam is considered one of the world's richest men, but over the past three decades, he has gone to great lengths to conceal his vast, ill-gotten fortune. "Money is profoundly important to Saddam, but not because of greed," says Dr. Jerrold Post, a psychiatrist and former CIA profiler of the Iraqi leader. "It represents instead his insurance policy and a tool through which he exercises power and manipulates others...