Largely for their creation of Windows, the company's founders were rewarded beyond all dreams of avarice.
Greed and avarice blind the masses to the overvaluation until rationality unpredictably takes hold and the bubble collapses.
And everybody from mortgage brokers and appraisers to investment bankers bundling toxic debt were perfectly entitled to their systematic avarice.
If men are swayed by ambition and avarice, what can we say about an executive who refuses the money he earns?
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Was avarice, arrogance or hubris that pushed Gupta to the dark side?
The larger-than-life character is a walking, talking embodiment of 1980s avarice and corporate malfeasance, a surrogate for real-life villains like corporate raider Ivan Boesky.
Saudi Arabia's 5, 000 princes and its great merchant families are indeed rich beyond the dreams of avarice, yet the kingdom as a whole has a per-head income little higher than Mexico's.
Some of them were gazing with dull avarice at the store on the other side of the road, the Ideal Traders Ice Cream Parlor, where fat kids in T-shirts were licking vanilla cones.
But perhaps that was Petrocelli's point: He hammered home the defense idea that Fastow was intoxicated with avarice, looting the doomed energy trader for his own gain--and without the knowledge of Skilling or Lay, the firm's founder.
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Since Costa Rica, the Wachowskis and Tykwer had viewed the dramatic trajectory of the script as an evolution from the sinister avarice of Dr. Goose to the essential decency of Zachry, with both characters embodying something of the Everyman.
Instead of being hailed as progressive thinkers whose vast contributions have raised the industry standards when it comes to sports ownership, the Dodgers have simply become a laughingstock throughout the business of sports thanks to avarice and moral bankruptcy.
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