Opponents charge that the move is an attempt to punish Indonesia's central bank for closing financial institutions that were pets of Suharto's rapacious children and friends.
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.
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.
Rather than socialism, it is an emphasis on protecting the disadvantaged even while proceeding with India's at times rapacious version of capitalism.
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.
Interested buyers who must be carefully screened thanks to the fact that Capone memorabilia has a rapacious fan following have hailed from the Northeastern U.S., France and Russia.
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Where, ask Mr Orban's supporters, were outsiders when Hungary was run by sleazy and rapacious ex-communists?
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.
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.
In the southern Mekong Delta, where most of Vietnam's rice is grown, farmers face crippling debts because of a discriminatory rice-trading system that favours rapacious middlemen and state-owned exporting companies.
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