Moreover, the strategy has created public-relations problems, exacerbating the public view of the industry as rapacious.
Their brazen ways risk riling antitrust regulators, still giddy from smacking around that rapacious monopolist, Microsoft.
Mr Ebbers is sufficiently worried to have raised the spectre of the rapacious foreigner.
But too often policymakers, attempting to pacify consumer desires or protect them from rapacious corporations, impose scarcity.
Before fees, which by tradition among hedge funds are rapacious, the managers are perhaps beating the market.
This disciplinary action will only hurt the spread of information and provide fodder for rapacious trial lawyers.
And it appeals to those who see the Bush administration as a conspiracy to benefit rapacious corporations.
Or are Microsoft and Facebook the rapacious predators who sedulously poach the fruit from others intellectual vigor?
Behind the hoodies and flip-flops lurk businesspeople as rapacious as the black-suited and top-hatted industrialists of the late-19th century.
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Finally, Amtrak is burdened by contracts with some of our most rapacious unions.
When Miss Bell committed her crimes, the press was less rapacious than today.
He is decried as a rapacious monopolist who built his empire on cozy ties to Mexican presidents and other politicians.
That was when, suddenly, the Bush administration discovered that Putin was not a hard-nosed reformer but a rapacious and dastardly autocrat.
But Burger King and 3G Capital have also been targets of liberal media critics who view private-equity firms as rapacious capitalists.
They might also usefully improve transport by, say, building bridges over rivers prone to flooding, which would cut out rapacious middlemen.
So too has the rejection of designs for a dynamic, arguably rapacious-looking, eagle to decorate a wall of the new hall.
Within Belgium, the Brugeoise have a reputation for being greedy and rapacious.
Of course, even McNerney may consider himself on starvation rations compared to some of the more rapacious buzzards in the American corporate aviary.
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The resulting prison-building boom, and rapacious bargaining by the prison-guards union, meant that state penitentiaries became the fastest-growing major cost in the state budget.
This makes High Yield a way for low-budget investors to invest alongside private equity and hedge funds without the usual rapacious fees of those categories.
Are they too big for their boots - over-cosseted - or are they standing up for ordinary folk in the face of rapacious bosses?
With the help of a 2010 U.S. Supreme Court decision they also put themselves a little further out of the reach of rapacious securities litigators.
And rapacious as those interest rates seem - it's funny, if you look around the world, very poor people have a way of coping with them.
All this is plausible, but Mr Jeal strains credulity when he claims that Stanley remained unaware for so long of the rapacious African ambitions of Leopold.
To date, this hopeful comparison has fallen down because Russians lack that heritage of civic faith that tinged the mind of even the most rapacious of America's tycoons.
In 1882, they enter Appaloosa, a New Mexico frontier town, and offer their services to people who are being terrorized by a rapacious landowner and gang leader (Jeremy Irons).
When the federal government got involved in roads, it learned a lesson from the railways, where rapacious private railroad-builders had regularly put their own interests ahead of the country's.
The more so since the spectacle of a claw beside a customs man might suggest a grasping and rapacious nature, which no client would wish implied, whether there was evidence for it or not.
That said, if excess funny money is flowing into the stock market backed by rapacious buyers offering a weakened dollar for shares, then by definition there are individuals exiting the very same stock market.
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That skyline also attests to Hong Kong's rapacious appetite for the new: Few examples of traditional Chinese or more recent colonial architecture stand outside of museums, while contemporary works by Norman Foster and I.
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