| 单词 | rapacious |
| 例句 | Those who commit themselves and are not rapacious should be honoured and loved. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z As I have said, what makes him hated above all else is being rapacious and a usurper of the property and the women of his subjects. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z The people loved peace and quiet and, because of this, they were pleased by decent princes, while the soldiers loved a prince with military spirit who was cruel, arrogant, and rapacious. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z Horrifying mental images of classrooms in which rapacious black boys sat within arm’s reach of their innocent daughters flickered through their heads. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z They often collected in prodigious, not to say rapacious, quantities. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Chinese doing computer drawings for Japanese homes, nearly seventy years after a rapacious Japanese army occupied China, razing many homes in the process. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z And certainly they were already pretty rapacious and pretty politically conservative. ?People Who Eat Darkness?: The disappearing blonde 2012-05-20T21:00:00Z Directed by Robert Connolly, it’s a mournful, stodgy, girl-meets-fish drama about the emotional cost of protecting the planet from its most rapacious predator: the land developer. ‘Blueback’ Review: A Heart for the Ocean 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z Cantú is consumed by dreams you needn’t recruit Freud to interpret: lost teeth, rapacious wolves, empty boxes, faceless men. A heartfelt lament on patrolling the border: Francisco Cantu's 'The Line Becomes a River' 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z Then "the Wall Street community" went on doing business the same rapacious way, making risky bets and refusing loans to people who needed them. Oliver Stone's New Wall Street: Greed Is God 2010-09-23T08:25:00Z The young man's attempts to qualify as an engineer are continually frustrated by a world of social hierarchies, oppressive government and rapacious corporations reaching into the lives of individuals. Five science fiction novels for people who hate SF 2013-06-28T09:44:47Z “He was an antiwar liberal and a rapacious capitalist, naïve and crafty, friend and enemy, straight and gay, editor and publisher,” Hagan writes. The Licentious Life and Times of Jann Wenner 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z This time, instead of singing about a rapacious audience, she’s confronting insecurities implanted by her family — ones she hasn’t entirely conquered. Drake and DaBaby Join Lil Yachty’s Shtick, and 8 More New Songs 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z At least she was aware of her image – a sort of infantilised and fluffy pretty girl, either at the mercy of a rapacious man, or needing guidance from a strong masculine hand. The 'Nazi Marilyn Monroe': Goebbels had very nice eyes – but he was a devil! 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z Proulx presents a thrilling, 300-year saga about the vast forests and the rapacious timbermen who enabled the United States to conquer the world. Notable fiction in 2016 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z Nor will a boycott of industrial farming or of rapacious supermarkets. Feeding Frenzy by Paul McMahon; A Hungry Man in a Greedy World by Jay Rayner – review 2013-05-26T07:00:05Z Vic could be a monster of snarling rapacious self-regard or an angel of vengeance meting out Old Testament justice, often in the same scene. Box Set Club: The Shield 2011-08-23T11:40:27Z Twelve brawling, boastful boys; twelve fragile and rapacious egos; twelve adolescences — all presented to the new queen as routine aspects of her job. Review: ‘A Wild Swan,’ Michael Cunningham’s Scabrous Antidote to Happily Ever After 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z But by the time they returned to South Africa in 1893, they had been worn down by rapacious tour managers, discrimination and internal dissent. Finding a Voice (and Bodies) for an Untold South African Story 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z Stoicism, like Buddhism, is particularly critical of the American disease, the rapacious desire for things. Review | Aristotle’s lisp, why Socrates loved dancing and other tales of ancient thinkers 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z By contrast, Coco is bracingly brash as Terry, the rapacious opportunist who has no patience for ethical niceties. 'Dirty' takes on the slippery slope of compromise 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z Robots in our collective imagination have tended toward menace, rapacious will and allegiance to none. Spot is the $74,500 robot dog of our dystopian dreams 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z In harrowing scenes of personal sacrifice — or deadly self-righteousness — we see an unlikely group drawn together by their absolute conviction that our rapacious destruction of trees is an act of mass suicide. Review | The most exciting novel about trees you’ll ever read 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z An even more rapacious cucurbit is found on the opposite fence. Surveying the garden after a soggy summer 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z A gifted singer, she is remade in flashy style by a rapacious record mogul. Erica Kennedy, Music Writer and Novelist, Dies at 42 2012-06-19T00:18:34Z The very nature of the kingdom – which prioritises the poor and the vulnerable and invites us to be our true selves in Christ – is a work of resistance against the emptiness of rapacious consumerism. The church: our best hope against the zombies 2012-08-28T09:16:20Z This communion with lost time should steal upon us in it is own, organic fashion, not at the bidding of other people, or according to the algorithm of a rapacious and amoral corporation. Perspective | It’s not enough for Facebook to own your images. It wants to own your mortality, too. 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z Ms. Haines’s scorn for today’s rapacious society occasionally results in polemics, but the majority of her various plots show significant promise. | 'Future Anxiety': No Shades Needed in Not-So-Bright Future 2011-05-03T21:11:59Z Shady politicians, greedy public servants and rapacious property developers are no match for V. I. Warshawski, a proper hero for these times. The Scenes of the Crimes: Landfalls, Stadiums and Creepy Blogs 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z But are they as rapacious as we were? TV review: The Chinese are Coming, Fame in the Frame, Cougar Town, Chimps of the Lost Gorge, The Big C 2011-02-09T08:00:06Z So who are the coyotes of Carthage: rapacious invaders or refugees to be run down on the road to some new American Dream? Review | Steven Wright’s ‘Coyotes of Carthage’ pulls back the curtain on how democracy works. It isn’t pretty. 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z Which, I know, is an odd nit to pick when considering a film built on time travel, bioengineered soldiers, rapacious AI and Arnold Schwarzenegger describing himself as “extremely funny.” ‘Terminator: Dark Fate’ Review: It’s Hasta la Vista All Over Again 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z How about a rapacious scarlet monster, whose gigantic paws with long, lethal talons emerge from under the bed in the night? The female psyche is focus of 2 new Seattle shows 2013-06-06T20:39:46Z Andrew and Barry are a pair of rapacious personal injury lawyers at Scorpion Claims; when Andrew's high-school nemesis appears with a complaint, an opportunity arises. Stockton International Riverside Festival, Liolà, King Lear: what to see at the theatre this week 2013-07-27T05:00:00Z A vulgar talisman of the rapacious Hussein regime, it also becomes a trophy sought after — possibly even killed for — by an American soldier intent on getting what he can out of the war. | 'Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo': Ghostly Beast Burning Bright in Iraq 2011-04-01T02:01:01Z They were a reminder that, in fact, sometimes less is actually more, on an evening of rapacious ruffles seemingly dedicated to the opposite idea. Much Gilt, Little Guilt 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z It is a compelling, and often moving, performance, and a work that asks you to think about technology, belief systems, social customs, rapacious materialism, the environment and theater itself. Holland Festival Tackles the Enigma That Is Europe 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z But Saarinen finessed the problem rather like corporate architects today finesse the problem of housing large, impersonal, often rapacious organizations in buildings that suggests transparency, openness and idealism. Perspective | 50 years later, St. Louis’ Gateway Arch emerges with a new name and a skeptical view of western expansion 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z I fear Cuba and its people will fall victim to rapacious capitalism after the old guard in control has passed away. Havana’s Symphony of Sound 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z She leaps upon him, considerably more rapacious than either the real or the fake lion. Samson and Delilah: a good effort at biblical sex and violence 2013-06-20T09:00:02Z He also has a reputation for rapacious, predatory behavior—and we know Lucious, at least, to be a man capable of violence, in his quest to dominate every scenario. “Empire”’s sex slump: Why sex on TV’s sexiest show — including that threesome — is so incredibly awkward 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z But he used the same tool kit everybody uses today: the rapacious use of not-for-profits to hide trips, to hide agendas, to hide money flows. Jack Abramoff, Eliot Spitzer: A tale of two swindlers 2010-05-06T16:01:00Z They manned the barricades to protest rapacious development, creeping privatization and money going for highways not subways. A New $260 Million Park Floats on the Hudson. It’s a Charmer. 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z Luxuriously pliant but restrictive nonetheless, they functioned as armature, shielding Jackie from a rapacious public and, at the same time, defining her. Jackie Kennedy: The First Instagram First Lady 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z Deus Ex is basically a cyberpunk franchise set in the relatively familiar concept of a near-future Earth defined by rapacious corporations and the widespread social effects of cybernetic enhancement. Critic?s Notebook: A Critic?s Lament: The Games That Got Away 2011-12-24T02:00:10Z He is also reassured by the fact that some of the presidents were outwitted by rapacious rabbits. A historian gets gardening inspiration from his subjects: U.S. presidents 2018-05-28T04:00:00Z Then some rapacious, observant monster in the neighborhood can notice the change on Tyson and follow him up there. Sparring with Mike Tyson 2012-08-09T04:48:00Z The Scroll of Esther is thus allegory as national autobiography: the story of a Diaspora Jewry regularly threatened with rapacious assaults by hostile neighbors and historic foes. Biblical birth control: The surprisingly contraception-friendly Old Testament 2014-01-05T19:00:00Z One of his most famous lithographs, depicting the “citizen king” Louis-Philippe as the grotesquely rapacious Gargantua, was so inflammatory that it landed the artist in prison for six months. Perspective | I returned to the National Gallery seeking comfort. But art no longer feels like an escape. 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z Mr. Maddalena was riveting in the long scene in which Nixon meets the frail yet feisty Mao, here the tenor Bruce Brubaker in a performance that captures the chairman’s authoritarian defiance and rapacious self-indulgence. Music Review: President and Opera, on Unexpected Stages 2011-02-03T17:34:09Z In Wright’s rapacious cadre of thieves, collectors, murderers, bounty hunters and art lovers, it’s impossible to determine who that someone should be. ‘Dancing with the Tiger’: a whirling tale of art and its sometimes sordid acquisition 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z Painful though it is to watch Jason’s gentle spirit overtaken by the rapacious Tyrone, it’s also ferociously funny. Theater Review: In ‘Hand to God,’ Steven Boyer’s Puppet Is Unfiltered 2014-03-11T02:00:02Z So, it’s another story of a rapacious capitalist burning bridges in order to create a global corporate behemoth? Ray Kroc: the wily businessman who made McDonald’s 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z These strong advance numbers, she said, were “unbelievable,” and driven by this season’s rapacious appetite for classical theater. Saturation of Shakespeare Offers Tough Choices 2014-01-21T22:13:00Z Chavkin began collaborating with Christian in 2008 when they created a musical called “Mission Drift,” a show about the recession and America’s rapacious brand of capitalism. Heather Christian’s Choral Work Is a Study of Time. Patience, Too. 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z Most one-man shows reflecting the biographical struggles of showbiz personalities against such perennial demons as mercurial agents, forbidding fathers, rapacious studios, ego-maniacal movie-stars, typecasting and their own self-destructive personalities can sustain 90 minutes. At the Royal George, the world according to John Leguizamo 2011-02-06T13:40:10Z Besides, if this story from the Lost Continent is not a tale of resourceful Good confronting and outrunning the most rapacious evil, then what is? Review: Out of Africa (and Kansas City) Comes The Good Lie 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z For these Ms. Levine extrapolated the abbreviated silhouettes of the six rapacious bachelors into sculptures, also in polished bronze. Art Review: ?Sherrie Levine: Mayhem,? at Whitney Museum - Review 2011-11-10T23:15:08Z Mr. Barsotti had several recurring themes, including rapacious businessmen, self-doubting kings, the psychiatrist’s couch and humanized dogs musing on the mysteries of life. Charles Barsotti, New Yorker cartoonist known for his simplicity, dies at 80 Prey Rated R for flesh-eating rats, rapacious Frenchmen and a thingy from outer space. ‘Prey’ Review: Alien vs. Warrior 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z The little girl's face, "like peony dispread", seems almost rapacious. Poem of the week: Time's Acquittal by Sara Coleridge 2011-01-10T10:49:35Z Instead, for its finale, the novel jumps ahead to a surprising time and place, and we’re back to the real world of rapacious men and women and the good souls who must confront them. Review: ‘The Bone Clocks,’ by David Mitchell “There was hope in the world that the mayor and his cronies and rapacious developers lost,” said Mr. Ellis. The Gowanus Canal, Toxic but Drawing the Crowds 2010-06-02T22:07:00Z “Trump is such a grotesque rapacious morally bankrupt soulless monster that he has awakened the first serious set of social movements I have seen in my lifetime,” Jarecki says. Shake, rattle and Rolls: across America in the shadow of Elvis 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z “His death is a tragic reminder of the rapacious, senseless destruction that is brought on by addiction,” she said. Emmys 2013 Recap: Who Won Awards, Who Won Our Hearts 2013-09-23T03:46:54Z Work that explores the close relationship between irresponsible corporations and money-hungry museums forces the visitor to think like someone implicated in a crime: Did I see that show supported by that rapacious oil company? Review | Hans Haacke makes that banana on the wall look ridiculous 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z The decade was like a long transitional moment between the casually rapacious spirit that preceded it and the War on Terror that came after. The ’90s Partisans Who Fueled the Rise of Grievance Conservatism 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z They were defeated, captured, bound and imprisoned in Tartarus by the gods we all learned about in grade school: Zeus and his rapacious clan of divine grifters. Perspective | Mount Rushmore is colossal kitsch, perfect for a populist spectacle 2020-07-04T04:00:00Z History is a tale of rapacious conquest and destruction with an apocalyptic ending. Movie Review: Jonathan Demme’s ‘Neil Young Journeys’ 2012-06-28T23:29:53Z It’s a filthier, morally malnourished post-frontier of land disputes, rapacious development, bureaucratic corruption, tribal animosities, endangered resources, working-class poverty, tax-free casinos, drug abuse and anti-federal sentiment. Review | A gruff Kevin Costner has a hard time corralling ‘Yellowstone’s’ wild herd of subplots 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z It starts off small in late spring, but by August, it is a large and rapacious creature beneath its magic cloak. The cicadas are gone, but they left their mark on trees. Here’s what you can do. 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z In Russia, Boris Yeltsin’s inability to halt his country’s precipitous economic decline or the rapacious raiding of resources by oligarchs eased Putin’s power grab. Can It Happen Here? Madeleine Albright Examines Fascism Then and Now 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z Birth of A Nation, of course, is the prime example of this mentality – the white lost causers “save” white women from the hands of rapacious black men. From Blacula to Get Out: the documentary examining black horror 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z His book becomes a withering indictment of rapacious capitalism. The Story of Appalachia, With Plenty of Villains 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z “Sarah has a combination of Canadian seriousness, rapacious, wide-ranging intelligence and curiosity, and salesmanship,” he said, “and an idiosyncrasy that clearly comes from a deep place.” Up Close: Sarah McNally of McNally Jackson Books in Manhattan 2011-10-12T22:41:28Z Everyone tries to get in on Vernon's supposed guilt, from the townsfolk who stage a hoedown in honour of the dead to a rapacious TV repair man who poses as an on-the-spot reporter. Vernon God Little - review 2011-02-08T00:34:00Z By drilling deep into the woods that enabled this country to conquer the world, Proulx has laid out the whole history of American capitalism and its rapacious destruction of the land. Annie Proulx’s long-awaited, spectacular new novel ‘Barkskins’ 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z “What rapacious innocence!” the modern Sinclair responds, reminding readers of the violence inherent to such dreams. The best travel books of 2021 — so far 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z A rapacious hedge fund got its claws deeper into the Chicago Tribune chain in December, which includes the New York Daily News and the Baltimore Sun. Perspective | The future of local newspapers just got bleaker. Here’s why we can’t let them die. 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z His stepsisters — not nasty — are rapacious and feckless; their bullying mother rules the roost with monstrous energy; Cinderella’s father is a melancholy, weak drunk. Mariinsky Ballet in ‘Cinderella,’ Under Alexei Ratmansky 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z So, too, did his work exposing the rapacious practices of the Force Publique in the Belgian Congo and of rubber barons in the Peruvian Amazon. The Dream of the Celt by Mario Vargas Llosa – review 2012-06-08T21:55:06Z It’s a cruel, mercenary strategy, but the movie is selling uplift, not a lesson in 21st-century rapacious capitalism, so their duplicity is delivered with sniffles, smiles and hollow rationalizations. Review: Lots of Plastic in the Face of ‘Collateral Beauty’ 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z Michöd has said The Rover is “about the rapacious capacity for under-regulated Western economies to destroy themselves, and it’s about the seemingly inevitable shift of global power.” REVIEW: The Rover Goes Weirdly Western Down Under 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z The “pitter-patter” of this rapacious arts juggernaut is indeed well practiced by now, but only because attacks on the arts are now a seasonal performance from a determined minority political faction. Perspective | It’s not an attack on the arts, it’s an attack on communities 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z In a world of rapacious CEOs and gross income inequality, Price’s move turned him into a poster boy for the low paid. Dan Price: the CEO who took a pay cut to give his staff a $70k minimum wage 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z Tan’s rapacious, rectilinear rabbits, some with wheels for feet, are stuffed so tightly into their uniforms that their ears stick out straight backward like a sprung collar. Shaun Tan?s Wild Imagination 2011-04-23T04:30:02Z Today, sophisticated and highly automated production greenhouses around the world feed a rapacious consumer market. This florist started caring for ailing orchids on the side. He’s now babysitting 13,000. 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z I'm all for rapacious corporations co-starring in vapid propaganda-comedies that only undermine them in the public eye. The Internship, a $60m pr blowjob for Google that thankfully flopped 2013-06-28T16:00:00Z Passing moments of vocal rawness didn’t feel out of place for this rapacious character. Review: Amid Omicron, the Met Opera Opens a Weimar ‘Rigoletto’ 2022-01-02T05:00:00Z Also the decline of domestic manufacturing, aided and abetted by rapacious financial engineers, further eroded labor’s base. Five obscene reasons the rich grow richer 2012-10-01T14:29:00Z The media may be rapacious, but they are simply going about their daily business. Are the media fuelling Charlie Sheen's breakdown? 2011-03-13T00:05:39Z In such novels as “The Night Manager,” “The Constant Gardener” and “A Most Wanted Man,” international arms dealers, rapacious multinational corporations and American torturers have replaced the Russians as the bad guys. Perspective | John le Carré didn’t just invent the characters in the foreground of the spy world. He designed the entire set. 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, her rapacious brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski, was all muscle, lumpish sensuality and crude energy, and his mentality provided "the soil for fascism, viewed not as a political movement but as a state of being". Tennessee Williams at 100: funnier than ever 2011-03-28T14:22:40Z Jackie Collins, the best-selling British-born author whose dozens of racy, page-turning novels chronicled the glitz — along with the sex, schemes and seductions — of the rich and the rapacious, died Sept. 20 in Los Angeles. Jackie Collins, chronicler of lust and power, dies at 77 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z And that is to say, a rapacious capitalist. Ry Cooder: 'Mitt Romney is a dangerous man, a cruel man' 2012-08-09T19:00:00Z That means drag, jazz and physical comedy; in their mixture of contemporary and period details, his productions have suggested an unsettling affinity between the rapacious capitalism of the Weimar Republic and contemporary society. Offenbach’s ‘Fabulous Nonsense’ Hits Salzburg, With Cancan 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z Chavez's hand-picked successor, President Nicolas Maduro, blames the shortages on rapacious smugglers who scoop up price-controlled goods, including shampoo, to resell them on the local black market or even in neighboring Colombia. Beauty-obsessed Venezuelans hunt for scarce makeup, implants 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z Around a thousand residents move to the mainland every year, unable to afford rapacious rents or find a niche beyond tourism. Venice world heritage status under threat 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z As it winds toward a somewhat preposterous conclusion, Mr. Cosson’s text is pocked with speeches about the urgent necessity of mending man’s rapacious ways. Theater Review: ‘The Great Immensity’ Gives Environmentalism Its Own Lyrics 2014-04-25T02:00:01Z Not to mention larger issues around worker rights and, frankly, my role, even if small, in feeding a rapacious capitalist system that also keeps me in business. 'Over one hour everything was cancelled' – how coronavirus devastated the film industry 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z Her size doesn’t trouble me — no, it’s the rapacious abrasiveness of her screen personality that’s the real elephant in the room. REVIEW: Melissa McCarthy and Her Hammy Calamity Tammy 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z It's plainly rubbish, but it's tenacious, because women who don't conform to expectations of womanly choosiness, who are rapacious, assume they have some male trait they weren't supposed to have. Women and sex: the myth-buster 2013-07-05T21:34:00Z In another, a wisteria in flower and other vines seem to be intent on pulling the house down, like rapacious tropical lianas. An artist captures the ‘ghost voices’ of abandoned houses 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z It was Theobald who persuaded Henry II to make Becket lord chancellor, confident that this charismatic administrator could be trusted to restrain a rapacious young king, and protect the church's rights. Thomas Becket, Warrior, Priest, Rebel, Victim by John Guy - review 2012-05-18T21:55:07Z That explanation shows how even when the new art puts NFT-ness on the table, in all its social and economic complexity, it can’t escape the rapacious capitalism that has come to be at its heart. One Year After Beeple, the NFT Has Changed Artists. Has It Changed Art? 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z Isolated, abandoned by friends, preyed upon by a rapacious healthcare system, they are in a place where hope does not reside. Small things add up in Matthew Thomas' 'We Are Not Ourselves' 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z Albert Brooks is especially menacing as the rapacious Businessman who boasts of owning all the stars in the heavens. Review: Fanciful Classic ‘The Little Prince’ Is Turned Into Modernist Fable 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z This magnif tour de farce is a showcase for Caesar’s reckless, almost rapacious comic energy. The Comedic Genius of Sid Caesar: 7 Clips You Can Actually Watch on YouTube 2014-02-13T17:59:44Z The country’s long transition to democracy also brought rapacious Western-style capitalism after years of isolation. Romanian Artists Rethink Brancusi’s Legacy 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z The 1987 stock crash, which set loose increasingly rapacious corporate raiders, began to change something about the nature of office work. Books of The Times: Nikil Saval’s ‘Cubed’ Tells the History of the Modern Workplace 2014-04-24T19:44:01Z Permanent ownership claims to an asteroid, whether by a company or a bunch of college space nerds, are unlawful—some might even say rapacious. Elon Musk and the Failure of Our Imagination in Space 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z There’s a pageant of red meat for you onstage at the Public Theater, where Sarah Burgess’s “Dry Powder,” about rapacious wheeling and dealing in the world of high finance, opened on Tuesday night. Review: ‘Dry Powder,’ a High-Finance Comedy Drama 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z “The Founder,” by contrast, suggests that the McDonalds weren’t remotely rapacious enough to fend him off. Review: ‘The Founder,’ the Story of a Supersize Businessman 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z Fisher feels similarly about rapacious health care executives. An E.R. Memoir Conveys Hectic Work, Empathy and Outrage 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z For Birnam Wood, getting into bed with a rapacious billionaire drone maker is a crisis. Guerrilla Gardeners Meet Billionaire Doomsayer. Hurly-Burly Ensues. 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z There are doubtless parallels, for example, between the despoiling, warring powers depicted in Altai and the rapacious nation states of today. Altai by Wu Ming – review 2013-06-01T08:02:25Z Saul seemed likely to win, in part because the rapacious side of Jimmy and Saul kept getting highlighted. ‘Better Call Saul’ Season 6, Episode 13 Recap: Life 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z Sitting in the cheering audiences on both occasions was Harvey Weinstein, months away from being accused of being a rapacious predator. How Can the Oscars Celebrate in Weinstein’s Long Shadow? 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z As hinted earlier, the movie I’d like to see is a satire where all the most socially conscious stars in Hollywood were actually genuine double agents for hard-right governments and rapacious corporate power. Brad Pitt and Natalie Portman queue up to prove their secret pro-Trump credentials 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z Why are we so fascinated by stories about sentient robots, rapacious A.I. and the rise of thinking machines? When the Movies Pictured A.I., They Imagined the Wrong Disaster 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z The art world may be full of poseurs, pretentious twits, rapacious entrepreneurs and the forces of corporate homogenization, but in key ways, it is still a different social and economic world than the movie business. Perspective | Netflix’s ‘Velvet Buzzsaw’ is a revenge fantasy against elites — making it perfect for the age of Trump 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z McQueen, who was apparently abused by his brother-in-law as a child, had rapacious appetites for sex and drugs and took huge risks with his health. Two butterflies, one wheel 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z Taylor was an old-fashioned screen actress whose career straddled the decline of old Hollywood and the surge of the rapacious new celebrity industry. Elizabeth Taylor: born to be Cleopatra 2011-03-23T19:59:58Z While Sri Lanka’s southwest coast starts to strain under the pressure of doubling tourist numbers and rapacious development, the resort’s smattering of new resorts and improved road access have grown to offer a beguiling alternative. With civil war and a tsunami behind it, Sri Lanka’s east coast is opening up to tourism 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z Our especially rapacious form of capitalism tries to fuel and amplify our desires and enable as many thoughtless purchases as possible. Joe Biden's economy is, honestly, pretty amazing: How come he doesn't get credit? 2023-11-13T05:00:00Z Nowhere is it more pressing than for Europe, whose wealth has always relied on trade, from its rapacious colonial history through to its reinvention as self-styled champion of WTO rules. Choppy waters as Europe navigates China-US rivalry 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z The sheer weight of vested interests in the rapacious model of development followed in Cambodia until now makes it very hard to change. The shadowy Chinese firm that owns chunks of Cambodia 2023-09-24T04:00:00Z Ukraine’s independence continues to be tested by a rapacious Kremlin that intends to fulfill its genocidal intent. In midst of war, Ukraine celebrates its Independence Day | Opinion 2023-08-23T04:00:00Z Obviously, Republicans aren't for law and order in the literal sense, as their likely presidential nominee is a rapacious criminal who is facing 78 felony counts so far. "Anti-woke" darling Richard Hanania is exposed: What this says about the "intellectual" right 2023-08-08T04:00:00Z Or is a warming planet and decades of rapacious human industry to blame for everything? Review: Colorful and zippy, 'The Beanie Bubble' ultimately feels understuffed 2023-07-30T04:00:00Z “On the one hand we have the sacrifice, solidarity and courage of these workers, on the other, the boundless greed of these rapacious corporations.… Which side are you on?” Taylor Swift is expected to boost L.A.'s economy. Striking hotel workers are asking her to 'Speak Now' in solidarity 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z More broadly, he said, the exhibit has a “borderline insulting” obsession with portraying Hispanics, here and abroad, as victims of rapacious European and American governments and culture. GOP strips funding from Smithsonian’s Latino museum over ‘quasi-racist’ exhibit 2023-07-23T04:00:00Z It has encouraged rapacious exploitation of Cambodia's natural resources and it has left many ordinary people feeling that they are not winning under Mr Sen. Cambodia election: 'This was more of a coronation than an election' 2023-07-23T04:00:00Z A common approach was to offer “protection” from the supposedly more rapacious European powers like Portugal in return for trade monopolies from spice-producing regions. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z She’s “a doe frozen in a winter field, the whole world a wolf” — that is, a symbol of the innocent victim of a rapacious society. What happened to all the war vet novelists? They've moved on, and so have we 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z "The court justices, who serve a rapacious minority dedicated to plundering the country, dare to cancel the law," Lopez Obrador proclaimed in his daily press conference. Mexico president slams 'rotten' judiciary after electoral reform setback 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z Brinkema, however, said that there were factors beyond market share to consider, for example if a company was guilty of "rapacious conduct." US judge denies Google's motion to dismiss advertising antitrust case 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z Fellow Republicans argue Mr. Comer is as well suited as anyone to manage rapacious expectations from the party’s base, though some question whether that is possible in today’s political environment. Comer, Republicans’ Investigative Chief, Embraces Role of Biden Antagonist 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z Outside of the lands that would eventually become Russia, the Vikings were universally regarded as a terrifying threat, not least because of their staunch paganism and rapacious treatment of Christians. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z As the roads swarmed with people fleeing to safety, the Louvre personnel, including Desroches-Noblecourt, trucked their precious cargo to various chateaus on the Loire away from the eyes of rapacious Nazi collectors, notably Hermann Goering. Review | A little-known French archaeologist, finally in the limelight 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z "What is clear to us is that younger children are being pulled into abusive situations by rapacious predators, often while they are in their own bedrooms." Lockdowns linked to tenfold rise in child sex imagery 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z Even if takes a millennium’s worth of creativity to offset rapacious corporations, unethical developers, ineffective governments and standard-issue corruption. If Future Humans Terraformed a New Earth, Could They Get It Right? 2023-01-08T05:00:00Z As the revelations pile up, we learn that Bron is the film’s true villain: A rapacious, not-as-bright-as-he-seems robber baron whose unchecked ego and ambitions lead to his spectacular downfall. Janelle Monáe explains how 'Glass Onion' created twists hiding 'in plain sight' 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z The pressures being atomized — rapacious capitalism, entrenched sexism — were systemic, but this was no eon-spanning epic. How 2022 became the year of the fragmented-identity novel 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z Kiri is one of the fully realized characters in “The Way of Water,” which centers on Jake’s efforts to save his family when rapacious forces once again threaten the peaceable kingdom of Pandora. Review | ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’: Long, loud, eye-popping and forgettable 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z The tournament continued to spotlight European soccer’s harvesting of the best talent from beyond its shores to feed its rapacious appetite for the game within its borders. Perspective | Morocco’s World Cup team represents a new era of soccer nationalism 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z In the southeastern Amazon, which has been assaulted by rapacious cattle ranching, trees are dying off and being pushed aside by species better acclimated to drier climes. As the Amazon rainforest goes dry, a desperate wait for water That, coupled with the fact that many facilities select which companies to use based on kickbacks rather than service, has permitted rapacious corporations to charge exorbitant rates without consequence. Opinion | California made prison phone calls free. Others should follow. 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z Or to save Russia from some future existential threat from the rapacious West? Analysis | As war fails, Russia’s authoritarian grandmaster backs himself into a corner 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z Or do they protect the citizens of their state from a rapacious federal government? Trans activist and author: In a fascist America, LGBTQ folk will be "systematically targeted" 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z And unless you make him, he will continue sullying the party with his scandals, sacrificing its standards and, increasingly, its electoral chances on the altar of his rapacious ego. Opinion | It’s time for Republicans to save themselves 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z Rising from the yoke of a military dictatorship that had promoted rapacious development of the Amazon, the country vowed a radical new approach to the environment. Deforesters are plundering the Amazon. Brazil is letting them get away with it. When the feds broke into Trump’s chamber of secrets, they unleashed something dark and rapacious within. Opinion | Inside Trump’s chamber of secrets 2022-08-13T04:00:00Z But we need a multifaceted approach to protect Americans from drugmakers’ rapacious pricing practices. Opinion | Work remains on drug prices 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z Civic strife fueled by fake news, irresponsible social media and massive local newspaper disinvestment by rapacious absentee opportunists have destroyed much of our once-vaunted local free press. Seattle Times 2022 anniversary message to the community 2022-08-07T04:00:00Z The family-owned chain is relatively lucky, though, compared to others that fell into the hands of rapacious investors less committed to public service or that simply couldn’t survive a decade of disruption. Last chance for Congress to save local journalism jobs with key bill 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z The most rapacious cutting took place in Amazonas state, overtaking both Para and Mato Grosso, which historically register more tree loss. Deforestation in Brazilian Amazon hits tragic record in 2022 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z Readers are dropped on the first page into the slaughter of feudal villagers by rapacious bandits. Review | In Ottessa Moshfegh’s ‘Lapvona,’ alienation turns to violence 2022-06-25T04:00:00Z A deep sense of despair descended over Europe as country after country fell to Nazi Germany’s rapacious conquest. Review | What drove some to resist Hitler — and others to stay quiet 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z He said the inquiry was diligently exposing "errors, malpractice and rapacious greed" but few people were watching it and there was a "gnawing feeling in Miriam's mind that it's getting forgotten". Grenfell Tower: Fire officer Debbie Lamprell died trying to save others 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z It cemented them in the popular imagination as among capitalism’s more rapacious actors, buying companies, piling debt on them, stripping costs, cutting benefits and laying off workers. Can Elon Musk Make Twitter’s Numbers Work? 2022-04-30T04:00:00Z But the ongoing failure to protect the world’s largest rainforest from rapacious cattle ranching is no longer Brazil’s alone, a Washington Post investigation shows. How Americans’ love of beef is helping destroy the Amazon rainforest Yet it’s a necessary message: Even the most innocent Russians will be price-payers for the rapacious actions of Vladimir Putin’s regime. Perspective | Wimbledon’s ban on Russian players is unfair, personal — and exactly right 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z Early drawings, including pages from albums he made while studying in Rome, suggest a rapacious visual appetite. Review | A master of propaganda, artist Jacques Louis David helped sell Frenchmen on the Revolution 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z One of their first acts was to begin clearing with rapacious appetite the forests previously burned and cut only lightly by the first peoples of the Northwest. The marvel of old-growth forests that once cloaked the Pacific Northwest 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z Very little of Gray’s career at the private equity firm has involved leveraged buyouts — the aggressive deals, often involving large amounts of borrowed money and steep cost-cutting, that gave private equity its rapacious reputation. The new financial supermarkets 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z But few think those goals can be reached without curbing rapacious cattle ranching. How Americans’ love of beef is helping destroy the Amazon rainforest The latter, especially, was terrifyingly relentless: in stores, from rapacious gangsters; on the streets, from inflamed militants on the left and the right; and in the home, from angry husbands and fathers. Review | ‘My Brilliant Friend’ is brilliant television 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z The two ruling parties, puppets for the ruling oligarchs, refuse to curb the rapacious appetites of the war industry and the rich, accelerating the crisis. Democrats won't oppose the war state: Are they the lesser evil — or the more effective one? 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z People often point out that, considering the rapacious behavior of many businesses, I’ll never be out of work as a consumer defender. Column: In this, my final column, one last consumer problem to be solved 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z The rapacious pillage by the elites, many of whom bankroll the Democratic Party, has accelerated since the financial crash of 2008 and the pandemic. America's new class war: Organized labor is back 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z The earlier essays remind us that “men are ambitious, vindictive and rapacious.” Freedom comes from God, not men 2022-01-04T05:00:00Z Alden Global Capital, the most rapacious of the ownership groups currently wrecking local newspapers, wanted to buy my old paper, the Buffalo News. Perspective | Vulture capitalists are circling my old newspaper. Here’s why we need to fight them off. 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z The newspaper industry will not be saved through more takeovers by rapacious investors. Stop letting newspapers fall prey to vulture capitalists 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z Those are the allegations made in St. Louis, where the Missouri-born Kroenke is considered less of a visionary and more of a rapacious turncoat. How St. Louis is beating the NFL in court and may win billions after losing the Rams 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said lawmakers would repeal new agricultural laws that the protesting farmers feared would leave them vulnerable to rapacious big companies and destroy their way of life. How India’s Farmers, Organized and Well Funded, Faced Down Modi 2021-11-20T05:00:00Z China’s president is on a concerted campaign to enforce a worldwide gag order over his murderous, rapacious, club-whacking policies. Perspective | The WTA cares enough about Peng Shuai to stand up to China. Does anyone else? 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z Are C.E.O.s rapacious greed-heads, or are they stewards of capitalism? An Environmental Hero or Outlaw? Can It Be Both? 2021-11-06T04:00:00Z Jordan worries about what he calls the “innate rapacious greed” of man. L.A. mystery: the mourning doves stopped singing. What happened to them? 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z That was followed by a blockbuster Atlantic piece about another rapacious Wall Street outfit, Alden Global Capital, that bought a huge share of America’s newspapers and is bleeding them nearly to death. Timely stories highlight journalism crisis 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z The natural environment is to be exploited by rapacious capitalism. "Trump World" is no joke — and it wants to devour American democracy 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z It takes vast sums to maintain large historic estates, and their fortunes were made during Portugal’s centuries of rapacious colonization, but that was long ago, and their wealth has mostly petered out. In a Fading Portuguese Village, the Gardens Bloom Again 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z “It is not as clear-cut as the hero of ‘Hotel Rwanda’ has been unfairly arrested and prosecuted by this government that’s perceived as rapacious,” Clark said. ‘Hotel Rwanda’ inspiration Paul Rusesabagina sentenced to 25 years in prison for terrorism-related charges 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z Across what would become the United States, Native people fought rapacious European powers and, when the time came, fought an expanding American government in order to protect themselves and their homelands. ‘A Sadness I Can’t Carry’: The Story Of The Drum 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z Their rapacious need to conquer the world’s trade, despite its myriad sins, contributed much to global gastronomy. The spicy, fruity, slushy mangonada packs a punch of refreshing intensity 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z Yet that’s likely to be a nonstarter for a notoriously rapacious Lebanese political class. Once, they were symbols of promise. The Beirut blast turned them to monuments of despair 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z The July 6 editorial on Chinese President Xi Jinping’s July 1 speech, “ ‘Heads bashed bloody,’ ” treated China as a rapacious country out to bash foreign heads bloody. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: Strong feelings on food (especially garlic powder) 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z Dismantling altars and selling off individual panels piecemeal was a common desecration later undertaken by rapacious art dealers. Review: The Getty's must-see 14th century Venetian art and the mystery that lies within it 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z These are people like the cruel crown prince of Korea, Prince Sado, who was so rapacious and murderous that on July 4, 1762, he was sealed inside a rice chest by his father, King Yeongjo. Perspective | Had a bad day? It can’t be worse than the bad days compiled in this new book. 2021-07-05T04:00:00Z This rapacious project wears a shiny green cloak, offering itself as a massive storage system for renewable energy. Opinion | The Little Colorado River canyon can survive only if we leave it alone 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z As the economy revs up to meet the rapacious demand of tens of millions of newly vaccinated Americans, employers say they can’t fill their yawning need for labor. What's up with the labor market? Probably won't know until the fall 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z "The cabal of billionaire owners overplayed their hand and their rapacious appetite for more united an unprecedented array of opponents," the Football Supporters’ Association said. EPL rebels apologize for Super League mutiny to placate fans 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z This time the cabal of billionaire owners overplayed their hand and their rapacious appetite for more united an unprecedented array of opponents. European Super League plans in tatters as English clubs, Atlético and Inter withdraw – live! 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z It didn’t help that the prince’s criticisms were easy to agree with in a country beset by soaring unemployment, along with a sense of endemic and rapacious corruption. For many Jordanians, official palace line on wayward prince is absurd fairy tale 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z Farms are battlefields, pitting growers against rapacious pests and aggressive weeds in never-ending, costly campaigns that often involve chemical weapons. Birds versus bees: These species are losing out in the great pesticide trade-off 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z In the Tatmadaw’s telling, a rapacious West could conquer Myanmar at any moment. Inside Myanmar’s Army: ‘They See Protesters as Criminals’ 2021-03-28T04:00:00Z The basic goal of preventing companies from being so rapacious that they abuse their workers financially remains defensible. Editorial Roundup: Wisconsin 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z But the other group, and many other indigenous associations, see her as a traitor manipulated by rapacious intruders eager to grab lands and resources. In Brazil, an indigenous woman joins Bolsonaro in fight for mining 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z We can prohibit commercial practices that exert demand for rapacious data collection. Opinion | The Coup We Are Not Talking About 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z He breaks down their need to denigrate Black men as rapacious beasts, dominated by urges that threatened the sexual purity of white women and the racial purity of all white Americans. Review: The superb documentary 'MLK/FBI' clearly connects the past to our troubling present 2021-01-14T05:00:00Z Despite being set in the era that birthed the mantra “Greed is good,” Rory isn’t exactly rapacious. Jude Law struggles with the nice before going dark in emotional thriller 'The Nest' 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z From racial inequality to broken healthcare, from rapacious corporations to a climate crisis, the Guardian will tackle America’s systemic challenges in 2021. McConnell thwarts hopes of higher relief payments, as eyes turn to Georgia | First Thing 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z When we learn about the authentic Candy, the way she was before she became famous, while seeing how rapacious the initially unassuming Paula really is, it’s clear where the story is going. Review: It's Drew Barrymore vs. Drew Barrymore in 'The Stand In' 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z From a broken healthcare system to corrosive racial inequality, from rapacious corporations to a climate crisis, the need for robust, fact-based reporting that highlights injustice and offers solutions is as great as ever. Trump tentatively agrees to transition | First Thing 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z It came to symbolize the rapacious gluttony of that era — and its rejection of the dewy-eyed idealism of the 1960s. Long live decency and generosity 2020-11-22T05:00:00Z Like his father, Bashar Assad elevated family to insulate his power — a younger, more modern generation, but one seen by many Syrians as more rapacious in amassing wealth. In ruins, Syria marks 50 years of Assad family rule 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z But Trump — aided by a soulless, rapacious Silicon Valley that keeps torquing up the algorithm for conflict and conspiracy — has relentlessly tried to obscure our ability to tell the true from the false. Opinion | Sharknado Goes to Washington 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z Without local leadership, transparency and strong oversight, public-private partnerships like these become two-headed beasts: Kafkaesque bureaucracy working in service of rapacious business. Opinion | Captain Chain Saw’s Delusion 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z The rapacious Snopes family is not just a figment of William Faulkner’s Mississippi imagination; there is a living analogue from Manhattan. Opinion | Biden needs a Sister Souljah moment 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z Mitt Romney was depicted as a rapacious plutocrat who personally embodied the policies that were eroding middle-class industrial jobs in the Midwest. Conventions Can Boost the Incumbent. Did It Work This Time? 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z The book is a portrait of something rotten at the heart of a white suburban family’s rapacious pursuit of the American dream. Mary Trump on her Uncle Donald: ‘I used to feel compassion for him. That became impossible’ 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z Alden declined to answer questions about business practices frequently derided as rapacious. The Last Reporter in Town Had One Big Question for His Rich Boss 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z President Trump backtracked Monday from remarks that had opened the door to a possible meeting with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, whom the Trump administration brands a rapacious dictator and the illegitimate ruler of his country. Trump backtracks on a meeting with Venezuela’s Maduro after chorus of criticism 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z In the new book, Mr. Memmi examined why so many once-colonized countries are marked by poverty, rapacious leaders, religious intolerance, poor education and a lack of democratic freedoms. Albert Memmi, Tunisian-born author of searching books about identity, dies at 99 2020-05-30T04:00:00Z By the decade’s end he was a late but rapacious convert to drug abuse. Little Richard obituary 2020-05-10T04:00:00Z In the 1980s, when Napa was still oriented toward relatively humble varietals like zinfandel, an epidemic of phylloxera — a rapacious insect that feeds on the roots and leaves of grape vines — wiped out crops. The Grapelord of Napa Faces a Threat Worse Than Plague 2020-05-09T04:00:00Z But to understand how Jair Ferreira de Souza is able to claim ownership of land within a federally protected forest, we need to step back into the Amazon’s chaotic and rapacious history of colonisation. A deadly cycle of destruction: how greed for land is fuelling Amazon fires 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z That oppressive cloud never lifted for Hudson, who’s portrayed by Jake Picking in “Hollywood” as a victim of a rapacious agent and hard-line expectations. Ryan Murphy’s ‘Hollywood’ miniseries is a woke ‘40s fantasy 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z They tell of blue-collar despair and deaths from addiction, alcoholism and suicide, and a rapacious health-care sector. Life on land, how we see faces, and reforming capitalism: Books in brief 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z Landlords can be rapacious creatures, but this new breed of private-equity landlord has proved itself to be particularly so, many experts say. A $60 Billion Housing Grab by Wall Street 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z Yet, he said, he constantly responded to letters from people asking about albino gators, or wondering if sewer workers did indeed carry pistols “to protect themselves from the ravages of rapacious reptiles.” The Truth About Alligators in the Sewers of New York 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z His choice as a Rhodes scholar to join the management consulting firm McKinsey always struck me as more about continuing to collect gold stars than any hidden belief in rapacious capitalism. Win or lose, Pete Buttigieg has made history in the White House race | Walter Shapiro 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z Whatever legacy he once had as America’s mayor following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, he has surrendered it to ego and a rapacious appetite for relevancy. Opinion | Thanks to Trump, we are living in a world of sleaze 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z “There is a knee-jerk tendency to see the legislative and judicial branches as the good guys, protecting the people from a rapacious would-be autocrat,” Barr said. William Barr, Trump’s Sword and Shield 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z These believers were pushed by a callous, heartless corporate society and rapacious oligarchy into the arms of charlatans. Onward, Christian fascists 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z Channel One’s main shareholder, Boris Berezovsky, a rapacious oligarch with interests in everything from oil to automobiles, proposed that Ernst take over. The Kremlin’s Creative Director 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z The alternative, which meant regulation or control of rapacious capitalism, led German industrialists and capitalists to build alliances with the Nazi Party. Author Chris Hedges on Trump, the Democrats and the dying American empire 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z They are stories about the background radiation of our rapacious economy, one in which customer and corporate desperation unwittingly amplify each other, accelerating the mutual distrust. Perspective | Air travel shows what happens when we give companies ruinous power over us 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z Demonstrators’ criticisms of economic inequality, rapacious capitalism, environmental degradation and worker exploitation are at home in the platforms of progressive Democratic presidential candidates such as Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders. Seattle’s WTO trade protests still relevant 20 years later 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z Federal leadership is needed to protect what’s left of the press from further consolidation and downsizing by rapacious investors. Welcome to Seattle, Mr. Biden, now go save the free press 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z Gone is last year’s fiery campaign trail rhetoric about China being a rapacious power intent on exploiting Brazilian resources. Economy in mind, Bolsonaro softens tone on China 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z In his testimony, Kent described Ukraine as a struggling democracy beset by Russian-backed forces, crooked prosecutors and rapacious oligarchs. Trump’s demands of Ukraine came down to three words: ‘Investigations, Biden and Clinton,’ official’s testimony states 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z The focus was on the wrong culprits: trolls; insatiable, rapacious Facebook; loosely moderated comment sections. Who is to blame for our bullying culture? Not just tech corporations | Nesrine Malik 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z At the core of this ideology—by turns naïve, blithely rapacious, and hubristic—was the technologists’ determination to avoid being perceived as gatekeepers. Facebook and the “Free Speech” Excuse 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z At its heart, this book is a tale of two countries, the United States and Russia, and how, as Maddow sees it — individually and together — they have been warped by a rapacious fossil fuel industry. Review | Rachel Maddow pinpoints the root of all evils: The fossil fuel industry 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z Henry’s uncle, Collis P. Huntington, was born dirt poor, but as a rapacious founding partner and then cutthroat president of the Central Pacific Railroad, he became immensely rich. Review: 'Nineteen Nineteen' isn't what it used to be 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z Many bore the scars of China’s trade practices, including its rapacious attitude toward American intellectual property. Farm-state fury creates pressure for Trump as trade, energy pain collide 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z China is a deep-pocketed, rapacious regime that poses a significant threat not just to American interests but to the entire civilized world. Perspective | Trump has the right strategy on Beijing. As a Chinese dissident, I’d know. 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z James De Lancey, a rogue son, led a rapacious group of Loyalists and terrorized the countryside. When W. E. B. Du Bois Made a Laughingstock of a White Supremacist 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z Yet many experts worry that the new interim government will present rapacious generals with a fresh chance to enrich themselves and their supporters. Sudan Erupts in Celebration After Army and Civilians Agree to Share Power 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z But whatever social pessimism exists in America set in during a period of rapacious capitalism. John Hickenlooper’s War on Socialism 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z Meaning America’s long history of using dark-skinned men as its all-purpose “other,” the rapacious beast lurking at every dark corner, hiding in every dark heart. The story of an ongoing crime 2019-06-09T04:00:00Z Some in the affected communities believe the outbreak is fake news spread by rapacious NGOs and the UN to justify their presence in the country and allow the extraction of valuable mineral resources. DRC set to exceed 2,000 Ebola cases in second largest outbreak ever 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z But seen from that sceptered isle drifting scarcely 20 miles out at sea, the European Union looks more like a political assassin, one with a particularly rapacious appetite for British prime ministers. What happens next with Brexit, now that Theresa May is resigning? 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z “The FTC must set a resounding precedent that is heard by Facebook and any other tech company that disregards the law in a rapacious quest for growth.” Facebook’s co-founder: ‘It’s time to break up Facebook’ 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z Erasing student debt wouldn’t fix the underlying problems of inflated higher education costs and rapacious lenders, and it might involve a certain amount of moral hazard. Opinion | Student debt vs. the politics of resentment 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z Driven by a rapacious desire to reinvest in the streets that raised him and rebuild the community, Hussle became an entrepreneur, community organizer, activist and mentor as he transformed into a rap star. Nipsey Hussle’s dreams were bigger than hip-hop 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z Isn’t Lilly openly acknowledging that its list price is unconscionable and unethical, and that people need to be protected from such rapacious corporate practices? Lilly unveils a 'generic' insulin and shows how broken our healthcare system really is 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z And bad as the bunch may be, law and modern civilization — represented by a rapacious American railroad executive and a vicious Mexican general — are even worse. Sam Peckinpah’s ‘The Wild Bunch’ killed the western dream, echoing the violence of 1969 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z But our rapacious appetite for the fruit of the oil palm tree has brought environmental devastation to Malaysia and Indonesia, as Paul Tullis reports. US briefing: Bernie 2020, Rod Rosenstein and Isis recruit begs to return 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z I can only imagine we’ve been cursed by something old and rapacious, because the alternative — that an uncaring universe simply allows everything and anything to happen — is almost too much to bear. The finance app Expensify made a video with 2 Chainz 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z But, in a skillfully turned plot, the actress, having spurned the rapacious minister, is threatened by the Stasi and begins informing on the playwright, betraying what Wiesler has withheld. An Artist’s Life, Refracted in Film 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z They also complain that their orderly, law-abiding culture is being eroded by uncouth, rapacious visitors. Denise Ho Confronts Hong Kong’s New Political Reality 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z It is Mother Earth, our collective home, whose common good we should all be working toward as it strains to keep us alive in this new era of rapacious tribalism. From space, our home planet shows no divisions 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z During the Cold War, Soviet school curricula highlighted the exploitation of black people as a prime example of both American hypocrisy and of the rapacious nature of the capitalist system. The Enduring Russian Propaganda Interests in Targeting African-Americans 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z “It’s an easy story to tell that these are rapacious hedge funds trying to bring a struggling country to its knees,” said Zachary Krug, senior investment officer with funding firm Woodsford Litigation Funding in London. Want to sue Venezuela for millions? These firms can help, for a price 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z We are the chief standard bearer of rapacious capitalism. How McKinsey Has Helped Raise the Stature of Authoritarian Governments 2018-12-15T05:00:00Z That year, Mr. Karen appeared in the made-for-TV movie “Little House: The Final Farewell,” playing a rapacious real estate developer who destroys the buildings in the quaint prairie village of Walnut Grove. Character actor who worked giants and the ‘Living Dead’ dies at 94 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z The rapacious forces of capitalism and technology, it seems, have become good at co-opting the mechanisms of art to their advantage. Review: Patrick Wang's 'A Bread Factory' is a richly absorbing portrait of a community theater at a crossroads - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z In the first industrial revolution, some of the first to benefit were so rapacious they became known as the “Robber Barons”. Facebook and Google are run by today's robber barons. Break them up 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z Deadbeat allies, rapacious foreigners ripping us off, and murderous gang members from MS-13 also figured in every one of the speeches. The Increasingly Menacing Message of Donald Trump’s Rallies 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z Its most persuasive arguments frame the conflict as a case of human rights being devoured by an unholy maw of rapacious capitalism and undisguised xenophobia. Review: Robert Greene's ‘Bisbee '17’ hauntingly explores the memory of a small-town tragedy - Los Angeles Times 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z It is that essential regulations — the sort that the supposedly anti-regulation Greenspan actually favored — are stymied by fractured government machinery and rapacious lobbies. Opinion | The dangerous myth we still believe about the Lehman Brothers bust 2018-09-09T04:00:00Z The story of tiny Nauru, once one of the wealthiest states per capita in the world, is a tale of rapacious colonialism, epic mismanagement, and avarice. Corruption, incompetence and a musical: Nauru's cursed history 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z Not everyone who is out of work is lazy and not everybody who employs people is a rapacious, greedy capitalist. Mike Rowe’s tireless ‘knife fight’: Foundation fighting ‘war on work’ for 10 years 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z Bottom line, these are rapacious landowners stubborn and wealthy enough to figure out ways to keep the public off their beach. California Editorial Rdp 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z The suit describes Mr. Bekaert as a rapacious supervisor who used his authority to delay Ms. Ravina’s research and undermine her attempts to gain tenure. Former Assistant Professor Wins Retaliation Claim Against Columbia 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z The Court’s decision in effect declares open season for rapacious politicians to tax online commerce. Springtime for Internet Taxers 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z This time, it’s Mr. Trump versus special counsel Robert Mueller, his shop of mostly Democratic prosecutors, a rapacious liberal press and the other political party, some of whom want impeachment. Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump attorney, says he understands president 2018-05-20T04:00:00Z Go down this rabbit hole and Seattle is a supreme victim of rapacious capitalism. Morning after on the jobs tax: Whether it comes fast or slow, Seattle will face a reckoning 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z He co-signed pamphlets that painted Indians as rapacious outsiders, stooges of the British who were greedy to control the Burmese economy while remaining a “privileged minority.” Perspective | ‘My’ Burma was a lie woven from the nationalist nostalgia of its exiles 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z The man with the rapacious desire for annihilating success in his eyes. Maybe magic does hang over Real Madrid, the game’s greatest club dynasty | Barney Ronay 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z Humanity’s present rapacious phase of fossil fuel use and environmental degradation, Frank says, is unsustainable for long periods. Could an Industrial Prehuman Civilization Have Existed on Earth Before Ours? 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z People don't join the social website intending to hand over their personal secrets to a bunch of anonymous, rapacious companys. What You Don’t Know About How Facebook Uses Your Data 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z If they install someone just as rapacious and heartless, that person's tenure will not be long, either. Ryan Found Himself on the Margins as the G.O.P. Moved Right 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z Sad to say, the only challenge bigger for an idealistic noncommercial project than being dismissed and ignored by the rapacious tech monopolies may be being noticed and respected by them. Perspective | Conspiracy videos? Fake news? Enter Wikipedia, the ‘good cop’ of the Internet 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z What we are being offered instead is a choice between the worst president of our lifetimes and one of the most rapacious corporate enterprises in the country. Trump's enemy is not your friend: why we shouldn't defend Amazon | Thomas Frank 2018-04-07T04:00:00Z Everyone wants in on that, including a rapacious megacorporation that will stop at nothing, including murder, to win the big prize. ‘Ready Player One’: The hunt is on in Steven Spielberg’s overloaded spectacle 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z But that did not stop the curious and the rapacious from pouring into the area surrounding the airport — by then cordoned off by the authorities — in a frenzied search for contraband riches. For a Moment in Russia, Gold Falls From the Sky 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z But that did not stop the curious and the rapacious from pouring into the area surrounding the airport — by then cordoned off by authorities — in a frenzied search for contraband riches. For a moment in Russia, gold fell from the sky 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z Surrounding it are a few trailers housing the white employees of a rapacious gold-mining company, and the equally modest homes of the indigenous people who once called the land theirs. Review | ‘Goldstone’: Woke nihilism in a noirish Aussie Western 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z Another family of rapacious plutocrats devoted, along with their Republican lackeys, to reducing Americans to serfs. Walmart Expands Online Grocery Delivery to 100 Cities 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z “We all know that China has been rapacious about trade, and very smart.” Trump’s Killing of Chip Deal Pushes Protectionism as It Invokes Security 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z North Korea has absolutely nothing we want, not merely enough to trick them into becoming vulnerable to our rapacious and predatory desires … but at all. Opinion | Can North Korea Trust Us? 2018-03-10T05:00:00Z He wanted to keep his workers healthy and happy, and so in an era of rapacious capitalism, child labor and male privilege he introduced half-day-Saturdays off, medical benefits and a retirement system. Attention 1916 Shoppers: The Doctor Is In 2018-03-04T05:00:00Z Land reclamation projects, too, have a rapacious hunger for sand. Asia’s hunger for sand takes a toll on endangered species 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z “If President Trump and Congress don’t crack down on their rapacious trade practices,” he added, “China will continue eating our lunch for years to come.” As Xi Tightens His Grip on China, U.S. Sees Conflict Ahead 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z Worse, it is a place of painful exile from their Igbo earth mother, Ala. Ada makes regular sacrifices, cutting and bleeding herself, but will anything short of suicide appease the rapacious gods within? ‘Freshwater’: a bewitching tale of gods and a girl coming of age 2018-02-25T05:00:00Z It is insane that they have had no legal means of protecting their economic and environmental interests against rapacious industrial invaders. Colorado Editorial Roundup 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z Women could imagine themselves as the prone, desired heroine; or perhaps even more subversively, as the predatory and rapacious master of the house. ‘Porn for women’ searches are up, but female sexuality existed long before Fifty Shades | Ash Sarkar 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z History books, of course, are replete with examples of monarchies that became symbols of repression and rapacious, cloistered wealth. What’s the Cure for Ailing Nations? More Kings and Queens, Monarchists Say 2018-01-06T05:00:00Z A bold interviewer, on Sky News on Thursday, asked if this was the beginning of the end for the most rapacious media baron in history: “Rupert Murdoch doesn’t sell, he buys…” Rupert Murdoch: Will this prove to be the media king’s last act? 2017-12-16T05:00:00Z The Aral Sea is a blatant casualty of human-caused environmental change caused by rapacious industrial practices. Seeking the Source of the Vanishing Great Salt Lake 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z Hopeful a new age dawning in Zimbabwe but given the rapacious global reality... well greed and fraud is the menu de jour. Robert Mugabe Resigns as Zimbabwe’s President, Ending 37-Year Rule 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z Trump seems to have concluded that knowing how to whip up guacamole is sufficient experience for running an agency that defends consumers from rapacious banks, credit card issuers and debt collectors. Trump likely to pick ex-lawmaker (and restaurant franchisee) to head consumer agency – LA Times 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z There are very clear bar rules that preclude rapacious fees, but no part of the bankruptcy bar seems interested in ethics or self-regulation. Why Companies Like Toys ‘R’ Us Love to Go Bust in Richmond, Va. 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z Now we will live into a country that is a shadow of itself, hardly great, but crippled by a rapacious, mendacious and cruel conservatism manifest in policy and the courts. Trump Is Rapidly Reshaping the Judiciary. Here’s How. 2017-11-11T05:00:00Z What’s particularly repulsive here is the shamelessness with which conservatives framed the debate — pretending they were saving consumers from rapacious trial lawyers rather than doing the bidding of deep-pocketed corporate backers. By a single vote, Republicans throw out years of work on consumer protection 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z Many in the Philippines’ rapacious social media community joined him in poking fun at Trillanes’ insistence he show his tattoo. How Antonio Trillanes Came to Take on Rodrigo Duterte 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z He was an antiwar liberal and a rapacious capitalist, naive and crafty, friend and enemy, straight and gay, editor and publisher.” Rolling Stone founder falls out with biographer over candid life story 2017-10-22T04:00:00Z Whatever happened to the notion that the Bar Association cared about the image of the legal profession and were committed to protecting the public from rapacious attorneys? Why Companies Like Toys ‘R’ Us Love to Go Bust in Richmond, Va. 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z In the world of the wealthy, liberalism is something you do to offset your rapacious behavior in other spheres. What Harvey Weinstein tells us about the liberal world | Thomas Frank 2017-10-21T04:00:00Z He said Somalia’s “rapacious elite” was often more interested in continuing to steal than stabilizing the country. A Somalia bombing killed hundreds; officials figure it must have been Shabab extremists — again 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z So does the blobby, rapacious, all-consuming monster that shows up in the third act, much like No Face in Spirited Away. Mary and the Witch’s Flower is everything fans want from Studio Ghibli 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z I’m inclined to think that Alexander Hamilton — who viewed men as essentially “ambitious, vindictive and rapacious” — would be unfazed. Opinion | Tribalism triumphs in America 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z According to one study, 88 percent of manufacturing job losses are the result of improved productivity, not “rapacious” Chinese. Opinion | Trump is a novice protectionist 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z These deficits mean more money left the wallets of hardworking Americans to feed the greed of rapacious, low-wage seeking transnational interests. Nafta failed American workers. Here's how Trump can fix our trade woes | Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z Like alt-Shakespeare, with the press doubling as theater critics and a rapacious audience, these White House characters swallowed airtime and countless front pages. White House palace intrigue is becoming an unhealthy obsession | Ross Barkan 2017-08-19T04:00:00Z What a rapacious approach to life and death. Should we transplant pig organs into humans? | Chas Newkey-Burden and Susan Watts 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z Then there’s the Mexico that’s being decimated by a rapacious underground economy driven by warring cartels. Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z Indeed, at the heart of the code’s language is the notion that the worker is inevitably an exploitable object needing blanket protection from rapacious capitalist predators. Macron Takes On France’s Labor Code, 100 Years in the Making 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z He wants Jokowi to know that the Paniai people, aside from living under the looming threat of a rapacious military, wallow in destitution, with paltry education and health services. Poverty and Death in Indonesia's Land of Gold 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z It is the corporate home to two-thirds of the world's mining companies, part of a rapacious industry with an abominable environmental and human-rights record. Summer books : Nature : Nature Research 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z The outing of this sex startup in Bellevue, and others that lurk in the rapacious shadows, is about exploitation, desperation, money and lawbreaking. Justice for victims: Even tech-elite sex buyers are not above the law 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z An evilly rapacious regime was on the march. Opinion | Dunkirk is a war film for the Trump era 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z One of the best bits of the Premier League has always been its relentless optimism, an attitude of all-consuming dunder-headed excitement maintained through 25 years of rapacious change. Premier League at 25: best goal – Matt Le Tissier v Manchester United, 1996 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z And it pollutes our internationalism, refashions us in the image of the rapacious double-talkers who populated the ignoblest moments of our history. The UK peddles a cynical colonialism and calls it aid | Zoe Williams 2017-07-23T04:00:00Z Heart's insouciantly rapacious capitalism is, appropriately, the grossly throbbing heart of the series. Blood Drive’s dystopian cannibal future is just the present, with more visible gore 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z Through it all, the president’s allies continue to see Russia as a boogeyman for Democrats and a rapacious news media, an issue his core voters think is manufactured. Trump’s Deflections and Denials on Russia Frustrate Even His Allies 2017-06-25T04:00:00Z GURGAON, India — The Trump Organization is about to double its real estate empire in India with two new projects in this suburb of New Delhi known for rapacious development and poor planning. Trump company’s partners in India are no strangers to legal entanglements 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z Their mission is to find and rescue Honey, a familiar if effective point of entry into an unflattering mirror on America, in all its pointless savagery, sexual exploitation, class oppression and rapacious capitalism run amok. 'The Bad Batch' reveals a muddled but visually striking desert dystopia 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z A tick’s entire life is the rapacious search for a living being to sink its mouthparts into. Dog Ticks, the Zombies of the Woods 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z Conservationists and watershed groups can track its rapacious growth in tangent with development projects: housing up in the hills of Seaside, on recently logged lands, alongside highways. Volunteers tackle invasive Scotch broom in Cannon Beach 2017-06-04T04:00:00Z Because it is a public entity, it does not require the rapacious profit margin that would inevitably flow from Trump’s wrongheaded privatization proposal. Do not privatize the Bonneville Power Administration 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z Our for-profit system is increasingly viewed as a zero sum game in which ecological destruction, climate change, and rising inequality are firmly linked to the rapacious behavior of multi-national corporations. Whole Foods represents the failures of 'conscious capitalism' | Nicole Aschoff 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z We can only hope that the thuggish, rapacious vision championed by Trump and his administration does not prevail. The US healthcare system is at a dramatic fork in the road | Adam Gaffney 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z Kabul, one of the world’s fastest growing cities, is in the throes of a rapacious urbanisation. Kids working on Kabul's streets get a second chance at childhood | Sune Engel Rasmussen 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z Studies are in and the insurance companies, by whose profit margins we live and die, are reading them with rapacious interest. After Knee or Hip Replacement, No Place Like Home 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z As capitalism spread, so too did Western hairstyles, hair dye and rapacious competition. Last of New York’s Master Wigmakers 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z The South Sudanese people fought for decades for their independence from a rapacious, discriminatory Sudanese regime. Opinion | South Sudan’s government-made famine 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z To some, today’s billionaires are like Dr. Evil: selfish, rapacious and bent on world domination. Who Are the Richest of the Rich? 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z Rules and regulations that rein in rapacious actors in the market? The president’s demolition derby: Trump wants to axe everything he doesn’t like — and he doesn’t like a lot 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z Five years ago Goldman Sachs played the arch-villain of the financial crash, the very essence of a greedy, rapacious bank that profited while ripping off its own customers and the American people. Goldman Sachs will bring fundamental evil into the White House 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z Although that sounds harsh, the film doesn’t really make Kroc — played by Michael Keaton — look like the poster child for rapacious, uncaring capitalism. 'The Founder' is the latest film to give business moguls a tough time 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z “It’s an apt description of the damage and carnage that China’s trade policies have wrought on the American economic heartland. What’s happening is rapacious,” Navarro said. 'Brutal, amoral, ruthless, cheating': how Trump's new trade tsar sees China 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z He backed Remain this time to preserve shadow cabinet unity, though he also talked of preserving EU employment rights from rapacious Tories. Labour: the biggest loser from the Brexit referendum? 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z The oil industry is seen by critics as a rapacious business that has propped up dictators and run roughshod over environmental concerns and local indigenous groups in countries around the world. Trump poised to pick an oil tycoon with ties to Russia as secretary of State, reports say 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z In it, the grand villain is a rapacious construction company that is determined to remove a cultured journalist from her home in the Aquarius building at all costs, demolish it, and develop the land. Acclaimed Brazilian film makes splash despite political battles and cries of censorship 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z Earlier this year Navarro told the Guardian action was needed against China’s “brutal, authoritarian communist government” and accused Beijing of unleashing “carnage” on the US economy with its “rapacious” trade policies and currency manipulation. Trump and China: fears that deal-making will consign human rights to political 'roadkill' 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z "This is an ice-cool show about a coldly rapacious professional man," he said. The Red Barn: David Hare's 'ice-cool' thriller opens at National Theatre - BBC News 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z Griffith’s 1915 “The Birth of a Nation,” with its racist images of rapacious, animalistic behavior, being a key element, leading to a major revival of the Ku Klux Klan and an increase in lynchings. Ava DuVernay's documentary '13th' simmers with anger and burns with eloquence 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z “The human footprint is amazing. We are a rapacious species.” Warning to forest destroyers: this scientist will catch you 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z That was the year Bt corn, the first to bear its own protection against the larvae of the rapacious corn worm, was commercially introduced. GMOs Are a Necessity—for Farmers and the Environment 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z The danger for Trump is not that the Times scoop exposes him as a rapacious capitalist who took advantage of the U.S. tax code. Donald Trump’s Taxes 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z Other countries don’t let drugmakers abuse their citizenry with rapacious pricing. Could California lower drug prices for all? 2016-10-01T04:00:00Z Nast also helped bring down the New York politician William M. Tweed, the boss of the rapacious Democratic machine Tammany Hall. Your Tuesday Briefing 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z He says state government can’t prevent the price hikes but “can shed light on such rapacious corporate behavior.” Governor allows firms to stock EpiPens, condemns drugmaker 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z "State government cannot stop unconscionable price increases, but it can shed light on such rapacious corporate behavior," Brown said in a statement. California governor signs epinephrine bill, blasts Mylan 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z The main impediments to Africans making and selling more things are rapacious governments, potholed roads, inefficient ports and power lines without electricity. In or out? 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z Mr. Henríquez was hardly his only victim; Mr. Giraldo, whose secondary alias was the Drill because of his rapacious appetite for underage girls, had all kinds. The Secret History of Colombia’s Paramilitaries and the U.S. War on Drugs 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z These schools often act more like rapacious businesses than educators, taking huge, double digit profit margins and spending more on marketing than instruction. How For-Profit Colleges Could Spark a New Financial Crisis 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z But to get there, Liberia’s national legislature must overcome the bane of African politics everywhere — conflict caused by rapacious and uninhibited economic development and the ensuing human rights violations. Liberia must learn to honor the rights of rural residents to manage their own land 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z The Aging Solo pool also includes countless members of families plagued by addiction, disease, cults, rapacious children, even married progeny who much prefer their in-laws. Aging Solo: Okay, I don’t have a child to help me, but I do have a plan 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z In addition, during his tenure in office, the military-industrial complex became a rapacious juggernaut, an entity unto itself as Ike himself belatedly acknowledged. Sixty years and nothing to show: The slow decay of American politics since Eisenhower, Stevenson 2016-08-06T04:00:00Z This, we are told, loosed the hounds of rapacious capitalism, who exploited the free market by indulging in greed-fueled excesses. Next president should workd to repeal misguided Dodd-Frank Act 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z By drilling deep into the forests that enabled this country to conquer the world, Proulx has laid out the whole history of American capitalism and its rapacious destruction of the land. 2016: Summer books we’ve loved so far 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z The best case for Mr. Trump is that white Northerners reluctantly backed Mr. Obama because Mr. Romney was successfully caricatured as a rapacious plutocrat. There Are More White Voters Than People Think. That’s Good News for Trump. 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z Candice Byrd, 29, is a former payday borrower who welcomes more restrictions on an industry she views as rapacious and destructive. Payday Borrowing’s Debt Spiral to Be Curtailed 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z Yet, we are governed by a rapacious capitalist system that demands managers at all levels always produce growing profits. A Universal Basic Income Is a Poor Tool to Fight Poverty 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z Good buzz is also swirling around Brazilian film Aquarius, in which Sonia Braga plays a woman trying to save her beloved home from rapacious property developers. Cannes 2016: Hits, misses and Palme d’Or predictions - BBC News 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z Let’s meet one of the most powerful of these lords of rapacious global capitalism — Glencore. Introducing Glencore, rapacious global lord: A David vs. Goliath battle is brewing in Texas 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z The publisher of USA Today has been transformed under Mr. Dickey from a corporate giant often derided for churning out “McPapers” into a rapacious acquirer of vulnerable rivals. Gannett Boosts Tribune Bid, Showing CEO’s Aggressive Approach 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z His was an early and particularly rapacious version of privatisation. The $10bn question: what happened to the Marcos millions? 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z But Marisol was never comfortable with the media spotlight or the rapacious art market. Marisol: the forgotten star of pop art 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z In coverage of the rapacious egomaniac Donald Trump, "misogyny" has come out of hiding – at least in American news. Armchair Feminism and the Media Chorus 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z But then I realized these guys are so egocentric and rapacious, that would not matter to the remaining ones. Inside the Billion-Dollar Battle for Puerto Rico’s Future 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z The top official working for the euro group of finance ministers says that, far from forming a rapacious caucus eager to do down non-members, his political masters find it hard to agree on anything. The ins and the outs 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z Yet, here’s one way Merriam-Webster defines a different kind of shark: “A rapacious crafty person who takes advantage of others.” Prevent a shark attack by avoiding payday loans 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z She sings of the world we’re living in – one of warfare, sinister technology and rapacious greed that could spin us into oblivion – in order to “support people and determine what’s real”. Anohni: 'There’s something broken about humanity. We’re cannibalising our home' 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z The Global North’s “rapacious demand” for natural resources is fueling conflict on indigenous lands throughout the developing world, says Kyte. Why is Honduras the world's deadliest country for environmentalists? 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z My first thought is that we need to have some big hedge funds and banks fail to provide market discipline to their rapacious practices. Inside the Billion-Dollar Battle for Puerto Rico’s Future 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z German Chancellor Angela Merkel said uncontrolled illegal mass migration across the Aegean Sea, assisted by rapacious smugglers who put passengers on unseaworthy rafts, must stop. Europe gets ready to ship refugees stuck in Greece back to Turkey 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z But wild camels aren’t special enough to have overcome depredations by hunters, attacks by packs of hungry wolves, and destruction of their habitat by rapacious illegal gold miners. Can Angry Young Males Save a Critically Endangered Camel? Bernie Sanders, on the other hand, portrays the average guy, attacks Wall Street, the big banks and corporate interests as being rapacious. Stakes in Nevada Rise for Hillary Clinton as Caucuses Near 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z He was an energetic education reformer, favoring charter schools, but he did not really try to tame rapacious government employees’ unions. Michael Bloomberg: An echo, not a choice 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z Lewis sees himself as a champion for his characters, be they rapacious monarchs or domestic terrorists or capitalist pigs. Damian Lewis’s Transformations 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z As in that 2013 movie about a rapacious Wall Street executive, DiCaprio delivers a commanding, physically daunting turn in “The Revenant,” as a man whose surpassing strengths and near-fatal flaws beg for larger allegorical meaning. ‘The Revenant’ stars Leonardo DiCaprio as a man fighting for his life 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z After all the pain his Japanese forefathers had inflicted on Korea, the man continued, it was the least that Kaoru, who had benefitted from his country’s rapacious colonial exploits, could do. North Korea’s Abduction Project 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z It may not be easy - the highly competitive and rapacious Indian media will go to any length to find him. Delhi gang rape: Second chance for teenage rapist? - BBC News 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z The movie depicts the whaling industry as a rapacious one that irreparably thins populations to keep oil lamps lighted, and Moby is bent on avenging the loss. Forget Chris Hemsworth — the whale is the true star of 'In the Heart of the Sea' 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z With rapacious cleverness they knead public opinion and form from it the instrument of a struggle for their own future.” The Battle to Publish Adolf Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' in the U.S. 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z And rugby union, in the face of such rapacious man-merchants as the sun king’s racketeers declared itself professional. Jonah Lomu shocked the world as the first genuine global rugby superstar | Matt Cleary 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z Bond comes to her by night, with perils prowling her villa like cats, and you long to know—a rarity, in the rapacious history of 007—who is seducing whom. James Bond, Existentialist 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z This is the standard model of rapacious capitalism, fueled and developed in the tech sector. We should be suspicious of Silicon Valley unicorns and their exorbitant valuations | Mike Daisey 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z Many Syrians were relieved when increasingly powerful Islamist groups dislodged rapacious commanders and fighters from their communities. A 'kaleidoscopic' mix of rebel alliances on Syria's battlefield 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z Netanyahu said that Iran is financing dozens of terror cells around the world and that it will not morph from a “rapacious tiger into a kitten.” Netanyahu warns that Iran is building terrorist cells worldwide 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z You think hundreds of billions of dollars in sanctions relief and fat contracts will turn this rapacious tiger into a kitten?” Netanyahu predicts Arab countries will align with Israel against Iran and Isis 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z Mainland Chinese are referred to as rapacious “locusts,” and seen as “disgusting,” “uncivilized,” and “immoral,” in language reminiscent of ultra-nationalist and rightist rhetoric everywhere. Calls For More Autonomy, Or Independence, Grow in Hong Kong 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z To be of apparent migrant origin in a European country will need to become a fate worse than living in a town or village overrun by bloodthirsty fanatics, by rapacious warlords and thugs. The turmoil of today's world: leading writers respond to the refugee crisis 2015-09-12T04:00:00Z The problem with the culture industry is no longer its rapacious pursuit of consumer dollars. The Creative Apocalypse That Wasn’t 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z By the end of each day our appetites were rapacious, and we devoured wood-seared beef fillet, foil-baked chicken and roasted squash. Into Canoeing? Try It on an African River Safari 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z International organizations have made headway in recent years with regulations that rein in the most rapacious practices, such as fishing with massive drift nets that ensnare everything in their path. On the trail of the sea bass pirates: High stakes on the high seas 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z He, in turn, claims his critics are trying to overthrow the government in order to preserve longtime, rapacious economic interests. Pope Francis' visit a respite for embattled Ecuadorean president 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z The mining sector once seemed invincible thanks to China’s rapacious appetite for raw materials. The Mining Supercycle’s Long Goodbye 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z Roosevelt believed government must protect nature and natural resources against the rapacious forces of self-interested avarice. The Christian Roots of Modern Environmentalism 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z The bristlemouths are a rapacious family of deep-sea fishes that include the wildly successful genus Cyclothone — Greek for “circular,” in apparent reference to the creature’s gaping mouth. An Ocean Mystery in the Trillions 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z "It must be protected against rapacious developers who would destroy the history of this sacred place and all it represents," public advocate Letitia James said. Stonewall Inn Gets Landmark Status, a Nod to LGBT History 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z “It must be protected against rapacious developers who would destroy the history of this sacred place and all it represents,” Letitia James, the city’s public advocate, said. New York City Makes Stonewall Inn a Landmark 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z After emancipation and the end of the American Civil War, the competing mythic caricatures of the black male as a violent rapacious “buck” or a docile “sambo” collapsed violently into the former. It's not called terrorism when the victims are black, not just when the killer is white | Jamiles Lartey 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z Coach Jill Ellis made several lineup changes as the Americans made a rapacious attempt to score goals against a Nigerian defense that had been porous against Sweden and Australia. U.S. Women Advance to Round of 16 on Abby Wambach’s Goal 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z With every upward tick in the city’s property values, the eternal lament goes, another rapacious landlord muscles out a neighborhood dive bar for a new bank, drugstore or gym. In a Changing Brooklyn, Shop Owners Decide to Call It Quits 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z Perhaps no American president was more rapacious than Jackson. The land-grabber 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z The 71-year-old provides the voices for such established Simpsons characters as rapacious millionaire Montgomery Burns, addled school principal Seymour Skinner and Ned Flanders, Homer Simpson's chipper neighbour. Harry Shearer indicates departure from The Simpsons - BBC News 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z The last time Langdon had visited the site, a decade earlier, he could make out the shapes of houses, but the rapacious climate of southeastern Alaska spares nothing made of wood. The Movie Star and the Missing Totem Pole 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z Occasionally, though, their hunt for profit aligns neatly with calls for greater financial openness by campaigners, winning the rapacious funds unlikely admirers. Cracking the shells 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z Rhodes, a British colonialist who died in 1902, led a rapacious campaign through South Africa and what is now Zambia and Zimbabwe, with dreams of securing the land from Cape Town to Cairo for Britain. Rhodes rage 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z It also takes aim at rapacious businesses, spent ideologies and corrupt institutions. Shame was brutal for Monica Lewinsky. But it can also be a force for good. 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z The elite modern boxer is a commodity, tied up by a Gordian knot of contractual agreements with warring promoters, myriad governing bodies, rival television networks and rapacious sponsors. Boxing's last bona fide super-fight? 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z When I look at the video Ficre made of the children watching the rapacious hawk, I hear the light tinkling bells in Simon’s voice and think, He was so young that April. Mourning a Husband 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z Attorneys get slammed as rapacious sharks, used-car salespeople get tagged as hucksters. What Every Job-Seeker Needs To Know About Headhunters 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z It’s not rapacious bankers, greedy corporations, or obstructionist Republicans. The new politics of hope in post-recession America 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z Teatr.doc represents a commitment to truth and beauty leavened with international respectability and local consequence in the face of a rapacious and vicious regime. Putin’s Punitive Theater of the Absurd Crazy nationalism based on the success of rapacious capitalism giving chinese the success thirty years of communism stole from China. Maoists in China, Given New Life, Attack Dissent 2015-01-04T05:00:00Z It is rapacious; it takes what it wants. Mourning a Husband 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z His new book, “The Internet Is Not The Answer,” is a packed compendium of all the ways digital life casts aside basic human virtues in favor of a rapacious, winner-takes-all economy. Book review: ‘The Internet Is Not the Answer’ by Andrew Keen 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z This is, of course, in the name of protecting the poor from the rapacious capitalist b…..no, the not very nice capitalist people. Payday Loan Cap; Britain Bans Credit For The Poor 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z The NFL is no longer a sport, but a rapacious amoral business model without a conscience -- much like Wall Street. Suggesting a Policy for Roger Goodell’s Conduct 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z In Iraq and Syria, the new model collided with a rapacious enemy: the Islamic State. Obama’s foreign policy plans collide with wars abroad and politics at home 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z The Founders worried about government being captured by factions; they did not foresee government becoming society’s most rapacious and overbearing faction. Government for the strongest Among the losers is the financially rapacious Revolutionary Guard, an ideological military wrapped up with economic interests. Why Iran And the U.S. Need Each Other More Than Ever 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z Kaizer’s extensive family had survived Liberia’s 14-year civil war, growing stronger as it united against poverty, rapacious rulers and indifferent governments. In Ebola Outbreak in Liberia, a Family’s Strength Can Be Its Fatal Flaw 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z The best method of farming for those in highly productive agricultural societies would be farming made more intelligent and less rapacious. Don’t Ask How to Feed the 9 Billion 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z His departure reflects the challenges that Amazon faces in a publishing ecosystem that largely views the online retailer as a rapacious competitor. A Major Setback for Amazon’s Publishing Unit 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z In any case, I hope their rapacious charters arrive in my neighborhood by the time my daughter starts school. Joel Klein's Book on American Schools Tries to Find a Way Forward Well before Edward Snowden revealed the rapacious scale of U.S. digital eavesdropping, Moglen anticipated the vanishing of personal privacy and the commercialization of personal data. Book review: ‘More Awesome Than Money,’ on the founders of an alternative social network, by Jim Dwyer It will need courts empowered to restrain politically connected polluters and rapacious developers who would steal land from farmers. China’s crackdown on dissent shows how nervous its leaders are Slate went further, condemning the “rapacious policies of the current government”. An apology from Australia to the rest of the world is now warranted 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z Although there are exceptions to any rule, for most it bears little resemblance to Senator Warren’s picture of hapless victims goaded into debt by rapacious credit card issuers. Why Everything Elizabeth Warren Told You About Consumer Credit Is Wrong 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z Venezuela is hailing the outcome as a victory for its sovereignty over rapacious Western multinationals, and oil workers were shown celebrating on state TV on Friday. Venezuela says to pay less than $1 billion to Exxon over nationalization 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z Capitalism is often portrayed as avaricious, greedy, rapacious and heartless, the cause of much that is wrong with America. The Demonization Of American Capitalism 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z I’m not talking about rapacious financial manipulators making trading profits like Michael Lewis’ Flash Boys. The ABCs Of Addressing Climate Change (From A Business Perspective) 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z However limited the group’s military reach, its theological appeal is particularly threatening for what many see as licentious and rapacious apostate regimes. The Obama Administration's Member-less Coalition Against The Islamic State: What Good Are Allies Anyway? 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z The lake trout—not a true trout, but a close relative called a char—is a rapacious predator that’s native to the icy waters of Alaska, Canada and the Great Lakes. The Battle to Save Yellowstone from Invasive Fish [Slide Show] 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z With heritage preservation a low priority, many of the old buildings, some of which are little more than grand facades, are vulnerable to rapacious "land grabbers". Karachi uncovered: website reveals city's hidden architectural gems 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z Among them, that Romney was a “rapacious Republican businessman,” a “phony” and a “political opportunist.” When campaign memos attack 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z D’Souza’s America is noble in its effort to discredit myths about the U.S. as a genocidal, thieving, racist, capitalistically rapacious nation, but really, who believes this? Dinesh D'Souza's 'America' Will Have Some Conservatives Yearning For Michael Moore's 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z By “demons,” I’m referring to the rapacious scoundrels going under the guise of “debt settlement” companies who pounce on people deeply in debt and promise to get them out of it. Debt Demons Discover Student Debt 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z But it seems they are there for rapacious consumption and not really for the ostensible reason of "learning about the Dinka". Nude photographs of the Dinka: art or exploitation? 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z U.S. officials have urged the Kurds to stay united with the Iraqi government to put up a more concerted defense against the militant Sunni militia's rapacious advance. Iraqi Kurds signal intent to hold independence referendum 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z To rebut the notion that capitalism is rapacious, for example, he includes a segment on Delish Dinesh, an imaginary burger joint with a tiny profit margin. ‘America: Imagine the World Without Her’ movie review This is counterpoised with stories of rapacious Conquistadors, especially Pizzaro plundering the Inca for their gold, “the sweat of the sun,” and silver, “the tears of the moon.” Signs Of The Gold Standard Emerging From Great Britain? 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z He was only half kidding, having lost several of his largest trees to the rapacious gnawers. Lake Barcroft offers beach living inside the Beltway The sizable — and rapacious — news media contingent in Montreal learned that Vigneault preferred to reveal little about those talks, with rare exceptions. Now With Rangers, Alain Vigneault Finds Success Far From Canadiens 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z To its supporters, it is often a check on rapacious governments at home. The dragon in the room 2014-04-24T04:00:00Z They use words like “omnivorous” and “rapacious” to describe Comcast, while expressing skepticism on the prospect of the largest cable company buying the second-largest. As Netflix Resists, Most Firms Just Try to Befriend Comcast 2014-05-02T01:47:58Z The nationalist world view portrays Japan as an innocent victim of rapacious and hypocritical foreigners. Is Shinzo Abe fanning nationalist flames? 2014-04-23T21:52:10Z And Winstone, representing all that is wily and rapacious, works from an animosity toward a God that will speak to the ark builder but not to him. REVIEW: Darren Aronofsky’s Noah Movie: Better Than the Book 2014-03-27T15:00:07Z But in the early aughts, Disney again floundered and Eisner was ousted after some in the Disney family accused him of creating a “rapacious, soulless” company. There’s Turmoil Inside Disney’s Magic Kingdom 2014-03-21T11:43:34Z “Don’t let them rob you,” she said, referring to what she and her ministers view as a coterie of rapacious businessmen. Buenos Aires Journal: Rocketing Prices Confound an Argentina Racked by Inflation 2014-03-14T00:32:15Z Even regulators, who have become critics of the way that banks construct their remuneration, tell me Barclays has not been as rapacious in its pay practices as it is widely portrayed. Barclays' bonus muddle 2014-03-10T09:28:06Z "I will learn that these rapacious raiders were in fact vegetarians, that they maintained some of the leading universities of the day and, worst of all, that they did not wear horned helmets." Were the Vikings really so bloodthirsty? 2014-03-05T01:19:38Z It was a rapacious effort, thorough and unforgiving, and it stamped the Red Storm’s revival as a team that may be worthy of consideration for the N.C.A.A. tournament. Well-Conditioned St. John’s Runs Georgetown Out of the Garden 2014-02-17T05:22:24Z For a bunch of rapacious capitalists, the people who start technology companies are strikingly ambivalent about the concept of owning stuff. Amazon Will Probably Dominate Books-by-Subscription, Too 2014-01-15T10:45:13Z And given our rapacious appetite for scandal, he would unquestionably have become the target of character assassins in the media - a far cry from the early 60s when his peccadilloes went unreported. The JFK myth v reality 2013-11-22T09:50:39Z Flashy videos on state TV showed ministers denouncing over-pricing by retail chains to a backdrop of thumping dance music, and interviews with shoppers thanking Maduro for protecting them from rapacious capitalists. Fire sale TVs and Chavez-style theatrics heat up Venezuela vote 2013-11-21T13:18:12Z A culture of rapacious, barbaric rule by a Belgian elite who had absolutely no interest in developing the country or population was created, and it has endured. Too rich for its own good 2013-10-09T00:48:24Z “He ended up becoming a gentleman corrupt minister as opposed to the more rapacious, warlord corrupt ministers,” says a former cabinet minister and colleague who declines to be named. The Million Dollar Minister 2013-09-08T14:09:00Z Prentis told the Observer: "A national inquiry and a freeze on water prices is the only antidote to a rapacious practice that is driving struggling families into water debt." Ofwat chairman Jonson Cox attacked over his old water company's tax affairs 2013-06-15T23:04:15Z I wonder, really, what literature can do in the face of population pressure, rising sea levels, deforestation and the rapacious instinct of capital. Environment: New words on the wild 2013-06-12T17:50:33.220Z Conservatives are more likely to see the only the side of government which seems a rapacious creditor, and therefore want to radically limit its scope. ‘We’re the Government, Its Worst Face’, David Foster Wallace on the IRS 2013-05-19T09:45:18Z It refused to acknowledge that its Communist state had such problems, and certainly needed no help from the rapacious West. Aid policy: Helping whom, exactly? 2013-04-24T17:52:27Z "They tend to try to caricaturise everything as being about rapacious, mercantilist deals, missing the wider lessons that can be picked up." China: 'rogue' donor or beacon of south-south co-operation? 2013-04-02T14:54:00Z Many moved money to Cyprus precisely to avoid unreliable Russian banks, rapacious tax officials and the reach of the Russian state itself. Insight: Desperate for bailout, Cyprus plays risky geopolitical game 2013-03-20T18:36:05Z Remember those rapacious financiers from the 1980s who took over underleveraged companies and stripped them clean of assets before selling them off? What the Activist Investors Battling Apple Really Want 2013-03-17T00:35:25Z We’re the government, its worst face — the rapacious creditor, the stern parent . ‘We’re the Government, Its Worst Face’, David Foster Wallace on the IRS 2013-05-19T09:45:18Z Not ten minutes earlier, I’d killed off just about the same number of rapacious villains in a nearby cavern. 'Tomb Raider' Review: Just Sit Right Back And You'll Hear A Tale, A Tale Of A Fateful Trip (PC) 2013-03-12T21:46:33Z UdaiSingh Indian tax payer escapes burden to maintain a most foul & rapacious beast who with his brother & friends subjected a helpless girl to extreme horrors. Another Outrage: Delhi Bus Rape Suspect Found Dead 2013-03-11T10:35:23Z There’s the continuing story of the Vatileaks revelations, which serves the interests of a rapacious Italian press quite well. Can America fix Catholicism? 2013-03-07T13:21:00Z A documentary by Anthony Baxter, shown on the BBC last year, sought to portray the struggle as blameless homesteaders against a rapacious cattle baron. Triumphant Trump wants second golf links on Scotland's wild coastline 2013-02-16T23:52:34Z One particularly rapacious former bank official from Shaanxi Province, Gong Ai’ai, has become popularly known as “House Sister” for having parlayed bribes and kickbacks into a real estate portfolio of 41 apartments in Beijing. Chinese Blogger Thrives in Role of Muckraker 2013-02-05T15:38:08Z The Sun says the reputation of the banks bas been destroyed by "rapacious greed and immoral conduct" - and the paper thinks that, to restore their good name, "the only way is ethics." PM's 'mixed messages' puzzle papers 2013-02-01T06:11:38Z Greed – as in the astonishing abuse of free agency, rapacious agents, loony billionaire owners, and mercenary players who play only for money – has destroyed the integrity of the game. What Seattle Times sports readers are saying 2013-01-26T02:53:42Z But many CEOs believe there is--or use that myth as an excuse for their own rapacious management style. What Dell's Attempt to Go Private Says About the Public Markets 2013-01-22T15:29:00Z Other common labels included "predatory," "voracious," and "rapacious." Sexual Cannibalism Is a Case of 'He Said, She Said' 2013-01-15T22:20:00Z After years of rapacious supermarket expansion there are too many mouths to feed. Triple-dip recession will give the Tories a massive electoral headache 2013-01-06T00:01:05Z It is an artificial entity whose constituent parts share the misfortune of having been seized by the explorer Henry Morton Stanley in the name of a rapacious 19th-century Belgian monarch. Op-Ed Contributor: To Save Congo, Let It Fall Apart 2012-12-01T05:49:07Z And secondly, Democrats have been particularly successful in Ohio at painting Romney as a rapacious plutocrat out of synch with white, working-class values. Keys to Ohio: Five Counties that May Decide the Presidency 2012-10-29T13:35:26Z As a decade of high growth and cocky ambitions, of rapacious resource handouts and robber-baron capitalism ends, the mood is somber and angry. India Ink: Newswallah: Long Reads Edition 2012-10-21T06:01:38Z Beyond being cruel and repressive, Gaddafi’s regime was hugely rapacious, too. Gaddafi's Ghost: How the Tyrant Haunts Libya a Year After His Death 2012-10-20T22:35:43Z Or are Microsoft and the rapacious predators who sedulously poach the fruit from others intellectual vigor? Just Another Lawsuit Against Facebook.....Maybe Not 2012-10-15T13:37:21Z This led him to conclude, as many apologists for dictatorship have since, that a stable society required a single leader in order to control the rapacious violence that was inherent to human nature. Ayn Rand on Human Nature 2012-10-05T13:15:08.527Z Criminal activity thrives in chaos, and the theft of antiquities for a rapacious international black market is no exception. Syria's Looted Past: Ancient Artifacts Traded for Guns 2012-09-12T13:35:35Z "I wish the beneficiary was not a rapacious monopolist." E-book settlement has publishing world in turmoil 2012-09-08T12:00:00Z The fact that Starbucks remains synonymous with the more rapacious aspects of modern business seems to have blinded people to what Costa is doing. Totnes: the town that declared war on global capitalism 2012-08-15T17:52:38Z If you want to argue that Paul Ryan’s mode of sincerity and civility is just the pretty face pasted on top of a rapacious social-Darwinist agenda you may be correct, but that’s not the point. Paul Ryan is the anti-Reagan 2012-08-14T12:15:00Z Mr. Burgess points to the rapacious killing of sharks for their fins, a practice driven by a demand for shark fin soup, especially at high-end restaurants in Asia. IHT Rendezvous: Should Great White Sharks Remain Protected? 2012-08-13T05:02:54Z As most of the country continues to struggle through an agonizingly slow recovery, Washington uncomfortably calls to mind the rapacious Capitol in Suzanne Collins’s “Hunger Games” series. Capital Ideas: Why Washington Is Doing So Well 2012-08-04T16:34:05Z It's a very common tactic, intelligence experts in India say, intended in part to satisfy the media's rapacious appetite, while reserving some details for interrogators. India Ink: The Media Trial of 'Abu Jundal' 2012-07-25T06:49:41Z Unasked in these optimistic forecasts is the question what kind of a world will survive the rapacious onslaught. Noam Chomsky on post-legal America 2012-07-23T14:37:00Z The Obama campaign would cut more ads casting Romney as a rapacious capitalist, except these would be buttressed by new facts in place of mere insinuations. Why Romney Should Resist Calls to Release His Tax Returns 2012-07-20T13:05:31Z Barclays boss Bob Diamond has sung from the same hymn sheet in recent months, insisting that far from being a rapacious, morally bankrupt monster, the bank is now a "good citizen". Banking scandal: our whole society has been warped by the City 2012-06-30T20:00:04Z The actual consequence of "soft-touch" regulation was to license the most rapacious misconduct with disastrous consequences for the City's reputation and the broader economy. Banksters will keep on escaping justice until the politicians act 2012-06-30T20:00:05Z This is the issue over which we, the public, and they, the rapacious corporations, need to get down to brass tacks. There's no point resisting corporate websites. It's time to sell yourself 2012-06-16T23:03:21Z Glasgow University boasts a ludicrously fulsome host of inventors and innovators including the beautifully eccentric, parrot-fancying genius of Lord Kelvin and the rapacious intellect of William Hunter. Olympic torch route, day 21: Glasgow won't stand on ceremony for the flame 2012-06-08T06:00:05Z The resulting prison-building boom, and rapacious bargaining by the prison-guards union, meant that state penitentiaries became the fastest-growing major cost in the state budget. California?s overcrowded prisons: The challenges of ?realignment? 2012-05-17T15:05:40Z According to Bruckner, Western leftists see the world as a confrontation between “a spontaneous, sentimental and just Third World” and a West that is “rapacious and cruel.” Latitude: Why Are Westerners Softer on Ch?vez than Putin? 2012-05-15T13:56:24Z In pre-modern times, the whole area around Kuwait was part of an undefined, lawless frontier region between the nomadic and seasonally rapacious tribes from the Arabian Peninsula’s interior and settled centers like Basra. | Borderlines: Put It in Neutral 2012-05-01T23:49:01Z A certain St. Launomar is said to have refused a gift for his monastery from a rapacious noble, because he was sure it was derived from pillage. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) 2012-04-27T02:00:34.267Z We could not punish the victims of a cruel or rapacious Ameer, without at the same time cutting off at their source the cruelty and rapacity, by the deposition of an unworthy ruler. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 2012-04-18T02:00:17.060Z The heretics preached and made converts, while the priests were glad if they could save a fraction of their tithes and revenues from rapacious nobles and rebellious or indifferent parishioners. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I 2012-04-17T02:00:16.473Z But the king replaced them with a new clique of servile and rapacious favourites. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z Ichabod, also, returned to the settlements; and through the assistance of his friend, the Captain, he was enabled to satisfy the rapacious Mr. Parsons for his demand of �25 7s. 6d.. The Frontiersmen 2012-04-10T02:00:18.933Z To the chink of their Idol's box they give most rapacious ears, and love no music half so well. Recollections of Windsor Prison; Containing Sketches of its History and Discipline with Appropriate Strictures and Moral and Religious Reflection 2012-04-06T02:00:31.240Z Opimius revives at this maddening spectacle, and the doctor urges him to strengthen himself by generous food, and so balk his rapacious heir. Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. 2012-04-04T02:00:59.277Z |
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