The last bastion of gluttony in the investment industry is stubbornly high financial advisor fees.
But in Las Vegas you can try your hand at such feats of gluttony every day, all over town.
They provoke laughter with behaviour characterized by gluttony, caustic humour and wit, but also possess great intelligence and wisdom.
In reply to their critics, the Americans will argue that, in economics, thrift is often a vice and gluttony a virtue.
The divisional round of the NFL playoffs, which starts this weekend, is already considered a festival of gluttony for purebred football fans.
Oysters and gluttony have gone together for thousands of years recalled Kurlansky.
Public opinion on the issue is hard to gauge: as in any market, fear is battling greed, and in this case gluttony.
If there were a Nobel Prize for gluttony, Kohl and Bill Clinton in their prime would split the prize (and maybe eat it).
People Like Ms. Rinehart are using that fact to create serfs and we all applaud her gluttony and hubris as some sort of superiority.
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They exhibit American ambition, gluttony and pomposity in equal amounts.
The trouble with lobbyists is that their appetite only grows with the eating as anyone who visits Morton's steak-house or any of the other temples to gluttony around K Street can testify.
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In a survey of 562 adults on those and other social networks, about 70 percent admitted to committing at least one of the Bible's Seven Deadly Sins: gluttony, lust, greed, pride, wrath, envy and sloth.
Governments, particularly majoritarian democracies, have developed survival strategies to overcome their self-destructive gluttony by evolving into what biologists call a hyperparasite a parasite that hosts another parasite and by transforming itself into a predator capable of preying upon humans outside the host population.
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As we pass through our own, far smaller catastrophes today -- as our political and business leaders are again exposed for their martial incompetence and their suicidal gluttony, those colossal blunders of 90 years ago come once again into sharp focus.
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