• The world economy would collapse, and we would all be back grubbing for bugs to eat.

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  • Yes, yes: Wealth can attract money-grubbing gold diggers, but that's not always the case.

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  • Tata is admirably restrained by the flashy it is tempting to say money-grubbing standards of modern India.

    ECONOMIST: The Tata group

  • The Ivy League universities are full of grubbing prodigies who regard themselves as the next president but five.

    ECONOMIST: The Bush clan

  • "For once in his warmongering, money-grubbing career, the former prime minister has done something decent, " says the Daily Mail.

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  • As a result the Tea Party is now often associated with fringe or unelectable candidates, social issues and money-grubbing political insiders.

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  • And to justify why its birds were angry, Rovio added egg-grubbing pigs.

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  • Namely, the meaningless, money grubbing embarrassment known as the Conference Championship Game.

    FORBES: College Football Title Games Are Embarrassments

  • Trace the causal link to its origin and it is somehow fitting that America's lawyers, those money-grubbing monsters, should help to clean its streets.

    ECONOMIST: In love with regulation

  • The aim was to avoid the twin plagues of welfare: handouts that encourage dependency, and the hijacking of funds by corrupt functionaries or vote-grubbing politicians.

    ECONOMIST: Social policy in Brazil

  • Both parties' vote-grubbing initiatives seem more populist than sensible.

    ECONOMIST: Germany's state elections

  • But it's male-ish to say that only the size of a man's pecs or the shape of woman's rear end can inspire a genuine attraction, whereas obscene wealth always and everywhere inspires only money-grubbing gold-digging.

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  • They also portrayed Reconstruction as a vengeance-bent occupation, with federal troops sent to protect money-grubbing Yankee outsiders who were looting a prostrate South and to give political power to recently liberated blacks who were unprepared for these responsibilities.

    FORBES: Fact and Comment

  • Meanwhile, it keeps its players entertained with new updates, 40 ways to play the game, 300 levels and three new brand installments: Angry Birds Seasons, Angry Birds Rio and the soon-to-be-revealed Mine and Dine (a new game that features its grubbing pigs and plump birds underground).

    FORBES: The Angry Birds Feature Film: It's Really Happening

  • Anyone who has seen Avatar will recognize the parallels between its plotline and what critics say is happening in Alberta: a proud and noble indigenous people under attack by money-grubbing outsiders bent on pillaging their resources even if it means the destruction of their way of life.

    FORBES: What Does Avatar Have In Common With Canada's Oil Sands?

  • With that elderly ailing yachtsman, Sir Francis Chichester, safely where he belongs (in hospital) we can devote our undivided attention to that other mid-summer non-event: moody Bobby Fischer, the capitalist world's money-grubbing little horror, playing, or not playing, chess against sporty Boris Spassky, whose sportiness vanishes at a flick from the Soviet machine behind him.

    ECONOMIST: From the archive

  • If it wasn't already perfectly clear by now that Monster Cable's cables aren't really worth the price (or any price above the cost of a coat-hanger), and that they're only using those bloated markups to perpetuate their reputation as money-grubbing lawsuit-happy snakeoil peddlers, we'd call your attention to their latest target: Monster Mini Golf, a chain of glow-in-the-dark mini-golf courses based out of Rhode Island.

    ENGADGET: Monster Cable at it again, sues mini-golf company

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