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Перевод: cupidity
[существительное] алчность ; жадность ; скаредность
Тезаурус:
- Released from the constraints of both shareholders and any market, managers are free to become public servants, "a purely neutral technocracy, balancing a variety of claims by various groups in the community and assigning to each a portion of the income stream on the basis of public policy rather than private cupidity".
- This may be by way of "proposal, request exhortation, gesture, argument, persuasion, inducement, goading or the arousal of cupidity."
- For the rest, the joking made use of a wide number of stereotypes, such as Irish stupidity and Jewish cupidity.
- Pacepa tells a typical story about Postelnicu's cupidity.
- Its whole history is known and is a sad example of cupidity overriding respect for beauty and history.
- "Arousing your cupidity, little friend?
- These are likely to be self-serving, but, in Berle and Means' view, the possibility is also opened up that rather than furthering their own interests, or those of the shareholders as currently required by law, management might act in the interests of society as a whole, evolving into a "purely neutral technocracy balancing a variety of claims by various groups in the community and assigning to each a portion of the income stream on the basis of public policy rather than private cupidity".
- He was unfailingly modest in behaviour and appearance, though his luxuriant hair used to excite the cupidity of the two hairdressers in the little barber-shop opposite the entrance to the Hospidaje Lisboa.
- I would remember the sunlight that I had thought was like wealth, redeemed and transformed beyond the reach of cupidity, and the shadows that were not black but the colour of great half-forgotten riches.
- Rincewind took a few steps forward, cupidity moving him as easily as if he were on little wheels.
- At his trial at the end of January 1990, Postelnicu blubbed out his guilt in connection with the shootings in Timioara and the incineration of the forty victims there, but he was anxious to defend himself from charges of cupidity.
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