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.
Where, ask Mr Orban's supporters, were outsiders when Hungary was run by sleazy and rapacious ex-communists?
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.
For the moment, there is a tax moratorium on Internet commerce -- but never underestimate a rapacious government.
Or are Microsoft and Facebook the rapacious predators who sedulously poach the fruit from others intellectual vigor?
Our factory is the antidote to all of this heartless, rapacious, greedy capitalism.
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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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Locals often have bitter memories of rapacious Western colonialists and Arab slave traders.
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.
These new traders, though, had a more rapacious edge: their fortunes rested on the opium they proffered instead of silver.
He is decried as a rapacious monopolist who built his empire on cozy ties to Mexican presidents and other politicians.
The protesters are held to represent a majority of Bolivians, while the government is that of a rapacious white elite.
Politicos are dreaming if they think voters aren't aware of how much is being picked from their pockets by ever-rapacious governments.
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.
Rather than socialism, it is an emphasis on protecting the disadvantaged even while proceeding with India's at times rapacious version of capitalism.
Within Belgium, the Brugeoise have a reputation for being greedy and rapacious.
The past century saw a rapacious growth of state power in America.
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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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So, once again the ever-vigilant Nanny State has saved the Little Old Helpless Consumer from the ravages of those nasty (and rapacious) capitalists.
So Myanmar does now in fact engage with the world but its engagement takes the ugly form of a rapacious capitalism with amoral partners.
One despot engaged in a frontal assault on democracy is curiously absent from this list, however -- the rapacious Serbian communist Slobodan Milosevic.
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