Largely for their creation of Windows, the company's founders were rewarded beyond all dreams of avarice.

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Protestors raged against the growing wealth gap between the haves and have-nots, while bankers and traders were accused of avarice and corruption.

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But thrift, after all, is its own brand of avarice.

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Saudi Arabia's 5, 000 princes and its great merchant families are indeed rich beyond the dreams of avarice, yet the kingdom as a whole has a per-head income little higher than Mexico's.

ECONOMIST: Time travellers

The larger-than-life character is a walking, talking embodiment of 1980s avarice and corporate malfeasance, a surrogate for real-life villains like corporate raider Ivan Boesky.

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Since Costa Rica, the Wachowskis and Tykwer had viewed the dramatic trajectory of the script as an evolution from the sinister avarice of Dr. Goose to the essential decency of Zachry, with both characters embodying something of the Everyman.

NEWYORKER: Beyond the Matrix

One danger for Brazil is that the new company will be a lucrative shell with no real function except to satisfy the avarice of politicians.

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Multiculturalism is a quasi-religion predicated on both moral relativism and a basic belief in the inherent avarice of the West - particularly of the US and Israel.

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Some of them were gazing with dull avarice at the store on the other side of the road, the Ideal Traders Ice Cream Parlor, where fat kids in T-shirts were licking vanilla cones.

NEWYORKER: The Elephant

Instead of being hailed as progressive thinkers whose vast contributions have raised the industry standards when it comes to sports ownership, the Dodgers have simply become a laughingstock throughout the business of sports thanks to avarice and moral bankruptcy.

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It gave journalists plenty of time to graft all sorts of story lines onto the unfolding event: corporate avarice spurring negligent disregard, inept government officials twiddling their thumbs possibly paid off by Big Oil, or an apt punishment for a nation hooked on hydrocarbons.

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But perhaps that was Petrocelli's point: He hammered home the defense idea that Fastow was intoxicated with avarice, looting the doomed energy trader for his own gain--and without the knowledge of Skilling or Lay, the firm's founder.

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