The verdict on Mr Fuld, that he was driven not by greed but by "an overpowering desire to preserve the firm he loved", seems too gentle.

在写到富尔德的判决时，说富尔德犯罪不是因为贪婪，而是因为“保护自己所钟爱的公司的强烈的愿望”，这似乎过于温和了。

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I got some boos, too, for referring to the eighties as a decade of greed and opposing a cut in the capital gains tax.

我也招来了一些嘘声，因为我称80年代是贪婪的十年，并反对削减资本收益税。

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He had found in the minors the soul of baseball — a place where innocence, idealism and romance thrived despite all too often being driven out of the majors by greed and hype.

他在小联盟球队中找到了棒球的精神——这里充满了纯真，理想和浪漫尽管他们常常被那些贪婪的，喜欢大肆媒体宣传的大联盟球队拒之门外。

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But it is as well to keep in mind that many intellectuals in the West still consider capitalism to be immoral: too devoted to a vulgar worship of money, too dependent on greed, too deeply founded on adversarial individualism.

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Once again it was similarly determined that banks had become way too big, their greed and conflicts of interest too dangerous to the economy.

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The belief that the Suharto family's greed had gone too far played an important part in turning even former allies against the president at the end.

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