Some critics have depicted Landau as an avaricious Svengali, a Colonel Parker, or worse.

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Another proposal: guaranteeing a minimum size for food crop fields to ward off avaricious cadres.

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"Anwar is capable of doing avaricious and expeditious things to serve his own interests, " says one longtime associate.

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But they are also casting a more avaricious eye on the traffic that radiates out from MySpace to the rest of the Web.

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"I wouldn't tell a consumer that he can rely on the real estate broker to protect him from an avaricious loan provider, " said Guttentag.

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The Saint-Jean lawsuit reads like a parable of the mortgage meltdown, complete with unsophisticated homeowners, avaricious bankers, and a mortgage that looks like it was designed to blow up from the beginning.

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This made us feel a little greedy and high-maintenance. (Hilton says it is planning to tweak the app to allow guests to make multiple requests at once.) Maybe Conrad read our avaricious mind, because 10 minutes later, an employee arrived bearing two dental kits, two pairs of slippers, two robes and a toiletry kit (with shampoo, conditioner, lotion and soaps) from Shanghai Tang, a luxury Chinese retailer.

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