Word: opportunists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...leave. Along with half a dozen other employees who have spoken out about their health problems, Polansky is consumed by mounting medical bills, the cost of her lawsuits against the airline and the air-conditioning company that serviced the building, and by Southwest's countercharge that she is an opportunist whose medical problems are unrelated to the building...
...York voters as well expressed their distaste for the base brand of politics practiced by three-term incumbent Senator Alfonse M. D'Amato, by purging themselves of his leadership. In the past, D'Amato has shown himself to be the worst sort of political opportunist, flip-flopping on the issues and exploiting ethnic and racial stereotypes for his political gain. The victor in the Senate race, Representative Charles E. Schumer '71 has shown himself to be a devoted public servant and will hopefully serve New Yorkers better than his predecessor...
Houghton Professor of Theology and Contemporary Change Preston N. Williams agreed with Hunt, calling Cellucci "a political hack and opportunist...
...black man who was dragged to his death by three white subhumans: 40 years ago, that town of 8,000--30% black--would have rallied round the subhumans. Today the mayor declared that the established bond between black and white would hold. And the dead man's family told opportunist politicians that he was not a national symbol...
...cures one of his first patients--a dying merchant--with what seems like one-handed CPR. Musa, the revived trader, is not particularly grateful. His first thought is to sign up the young Jewish healer for a traveling medicine show. Musa is worldliness made flesh, the sort of opportunist and schemer who if asked to swap his soul for profit would probably respond, "What's the catch?" By contrast, Crace's Messiah-in-training is a bit of a stick: an inept carpenter with a stuffy nose, a functional illiterate, the kind of cheerless guy who has to make camping...