But people still have woes, from rapacious officials to filthy air.
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But they had grown more rapacious as the winters grew worse.
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Too often, businesses are caricatured as rapacious predators of Earth's bounty.
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Look, China is rapacious all around the world, not just to us.
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It didn't close because of the usual thing like a rapacious landlord.
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Rewriting the codes means winning over sceptical voters and defying rapacious special interests.
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Vote for me, buy our napkins, empower women by working for our rapacious
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Such rapacious success should be savored, not criticized, said Jeff Walz, Louisville's coach.
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Big business and big pharma are rapacious villains that crush the common man.
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As capitalism spread, so too did Western hairstyles, hair dye and rapacious competition.
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The vulture as landlord is more dreadfully rapacious than he is as a bird.
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That ensured that America's particularly rapacious brand of colonialism ensnared yet more native peoples.
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A second problem is that many African governments are flimsy, incompetent, authoritarian or rapacious.
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Readers will savor this striking novel's ambitious structure and critique of rapacious, militarized capitalism.
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If you lean towards rapacious noise, inscrutable drones, and band shirts with illegible names.
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Why can't Facebook stop its rapacious march into everybody else's business by stealing ideas?
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Elected officials who identify as progressive painted Amazon as a rapacious engine of inequality.
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It's exhausting thinking about how rapacious big companies are when it comes to our data.
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What would a benevolent intelligence possibly make of our ruthlessness, our rapacious quest for understanding?
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We in Britain know only too well the price of our irreverent, excitable, rapacious press.
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Jews are both all-powerful puppetmasters and sniveling weaklings, rapacious capitalists and left-wing anarchists.
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To some, today's billionaires are like Dr. Evil: selfish, rapacious and bent on world domination.
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The Vatican's banks could have avoided a series of scandals if its bankers were less rapacious.
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James De Lancey, a rogue son, led a rapacious group of Loyalists and terrorized the countryside.
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There are too many vignettes of humankind's rapacious exploitation of resources for reasons beyond bodily need.
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Her version of Nancy is all rapacious appetite, unwilling to curb herself in almost any way.
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Both races are rapacious and brutal, making evil choices for the good of their own people.
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While many see Big Pharma as rapacious a greater number have been saved by its products.
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This line of attack might seem obvious, since Trump has long admitted he's a rapacious tycoon.
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The country's long transition to democracy also brought rapacious Western-style capitalism after years of isolation.
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They also complain that their orderly, law-abiding culture is being eroded by uncouth, rapacious visitors.
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The emperors created a closed, self-serving and rapacious elite — until the entire system suddenly collapsed.
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We discussed an excerpt of the "The Communist Manifesto" that chronicles the development of rapacious capitalism.
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"The Founder," by contrast, suggests that the McDonalds weren't remotely rapacious enough to fend him off.
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She was modeling the essence of Trump himself: mean, bullying, self-interested, self-aggrandizing and rapacious.
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Here, "violent conflicts" means extermination, "rapacious development" means extermination, and "forced change" means, well, also extermination.
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When Microsoft was a big monopoly and I thought they were much more rapacious, I fought them.
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Tradable trends have been rare in this space so rapacious predators are keen on plundering this one.
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Mother Russia was barefoot and humiliated after the rapacious collapse of the Soviet Union in the '90s.
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A tick's entire life is the rapacious search for a living being to sink its mouthparts into.
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Instability ensues when more people see the state as a tool of enrichment, or as a rapacious colonizer.
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The villain invoked is the rapacious watcher — the bilateral, panoptic "telescreen" in Winston's home — backed by ruthless violence.
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Governments have had mixed reactions to the rise of cryptocurrencies like bitcoin and their rapacious demand for electricity.
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What if the first cities were, above all, vast technologies of exploitation by a small and rapacious elite?
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Google has liked to pretend that it's not as rapacious as its competitors—that it's a friendly giant.
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Donald Trump and Jerry Nadler represent contrasting New York archetypes—the rapacious developer and the woolly-headed liberal.
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In the end, we both lost money because exchange rates are, at best, opaque and at worst rapacious.
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All these things sort of converged: the joblessness, the rapacious behavior of big pharma, Purdue Pharma in particular.
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One theory: The fruit's rapacious vines spread without much tending, rendering it the perfect produce for the lazy.
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The hubris of man — it is specifically men — and humanity's rapacious consumption and selfishness are all laid bare.
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What we have here in Carson is a sun-washed cautionary tale for the rapacious Lords of Football.
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"All this killing, it's too many for me" is his response to Tom's endorsement of rapacious westward expansion.
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His reports were detailed, and from them one can learn something about Melcarth, whose appetite for sex was rapacious.
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Sherlocking comes in many shapes and guises, and it can't just be characterized as a rapacious or malicious practice.
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Pilots will now have a third option, and it will be a platform with a massive and rapacious audience.
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Albert Brooks is especially menacing as the rapacious Businessman who boasts of owning all the stars in the heavens.
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We were trying to figure out how we, the "rapacious vultures," might invest more money in these heartland cities.
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Even in their most pugnacious songs — like "Erora," which criticizes a rapacious elite — their music maintained an optimistic spirit.
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With its investigation, the National Bank of Ukraine has shown its commitment tofighting money laundering by Ukraine's rapacious oligarchs.
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Now 31, Ms. Waller-Bridge spins off her sexually rapacious, anger-riddled, flailing London cafe owner into this series.
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These sort of rapacious companies taking all the good and taking all the good stuff and leaving behind damage?
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That's why shifting to focus on Kalanick and his — as Waymo has characterized — rapacious nature is important for Waymo's case.
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Before the System is that it lingers over a kind of early studio that did promise a less rapacious, happier
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Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of Britain's Labour Party, blames it for enabling "a more rapacious and exploitative form of capitalism".
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Before long, the crew is at odds with a rapacious alien, incongruously named "Calvin" by an Earthside elementary-school vote.
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Any token purchase was in some sense speculative, but in the utopian rather than the rapacious sense of the word.
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Like many rural Cambodians, Sa watched Phnom Penh become the sort of rapacious kleptocracy that had originally fueled the war.
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Now 31, Ms. Waller-Bridge spins off her sexually rapacious, anger-riddled, flailing London cafe owner persona into this series.
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In tandem with Cara Dune, the Mandalorian finds himself protecting a friendly little village from a gang of rapacious outlaws.
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They had been studying Cohen for years and understood him to be a rapacious consumer of information about his stocks.
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Advice on organizing in the face of rapacious landlords is available from various organizations, including the Metropolitan Council on Housing.
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"They're rapacious, the Chinese," declared Senator Charles Schumer of New York, the minority leader and moving spirit behind the proposals.
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The pressure to disprove pervasive cultural stereotypes of slovenliness, ignorance, criminal threat and rapacious sexuality meant striving for perfection always.
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As most war-torn places are some distance from Europe, asylum-seekers must endure dangerous journeys, and rapacious people-smugglers thrive.
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Migrants are encouraged by family, friends who have already made it and rapacious recruiters, who promise a cheap and easy trip.
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Migrants are encouraged by family, friends who have already made it—and rapacious recruiters, who promise a cheap and easy trip.
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To critics, this is evidence of a rapacious industry coercing the poor to auction bits of themselves to make ends meet.
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A renewed effort is in order, including regulations to ensure that current prices reflect likely future costs, not investors' rapacious dreams.
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Nast also helped bring down the New York politician William M. Tweed, the boss of the rapacious Democratic machine Tammany Hall.
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Trump is a right-wing populist who wants to defend the American people from rapacious CEOs and from Hispanic illegal immigrants.
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This time, instead of singing about a rapacious audience, she's confronting insecurities implanted by her family — ones she hasn't entirely conquered.
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The Saints' offense is not as productive without him, but with their rapacious defensive front, it does not need to be.
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The three break out of their birdcages energetically and with fantastical ease, finding themselves through the rapacious exploitation of other people.
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The three break out of their birdcages energetically and with fantastical ease, finding themselves through the rapacious exploitation of other people.
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But It is also presided over by the world's foremost authorities in rapacious buzzkillery, and therefore it is probably also doomed.
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The Ford company, synonymous with rapacious practicality, encounters the completely impractical pinnacle of motorsport and literally can't compute the resources it consumes.
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"State government cannot stop unconscionable price increases, but it can shed light on such rapacious corporate behavior," Brown said in a statement.
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He backed Remain this time to preserve shadow cabinet unity, though he also talked of preserving EU employment rights from rapacious Tories.
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So does the blobby, rapacious, all-consuming monster that shows up in the third act, much like No Face in Spirited Away.
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You lay out the case for why Disney would be rapacious ... why Disney would want more, because they're doing it really well.
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The main impediments to Africans making and selling more things are rapacious governments, potholed roads, inefficient ports and power lines without electricity.
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His ego and inadequacies were expertly manipulated by his regents, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, bureaucratic samurai with their own rapacious agendas.
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The Deptford pink (Dianthus armeria) is not in the same league as more famous and rapacious invaders like phragmites, mugwort or bittersweet.
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Channel One's main shareholder, Boris Berezovsky, a rapacious oligarch with interests in everything from oil to automobiles, proposed that Ernst take over.
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Because in the end, if it's rapacious and coming from overseas, we lose—the workers lose their jobs, not just their pay.
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Biodiversity loss, ocean acidification, deforestation, pollution — every area of planetary life has been affected by decades of rapacious fossil fuel and mineral extraction.
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Mr Trump likes to link the miserly defence spending of most European countries, especially Germany, to what he considers their rapacious trade policies.
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Elizabeth Warren rallies progressive activists by advocating fundamental rearrangements in the name of lifting average Americans at the expense of the rapacious rich.
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Now, glancing nervously at rapacious Chinese investment, Russian menaces, Donald Trump's tariffs and the terrorist threat, they wonder if he has a point.
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You should, of course, stop eating meat, and rapacious crops, and you should stop doing anything that has cost (economic, social or environmental).
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That's money they're taking straight from consumers by pocketing the rebates they squeeze from manufacturers and the rapacious clawbacks they demand from pharmacies.
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Günther Groissböck, as Baron Ochs, created a savagely funny portrait of rapacious male arrogance, reminiscent of characters in Arthur Schnitzler and Joseph Roth.
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Landlords can be rapacious creatures, but this new breed of private-equity landlord has proved itself to be particularly so, many experts say.
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Most Israelis prefer their leaders to be rapacious alpha dogs, said Mitchell Barak, an American-born pollster who once worked for Mr. Netanyahu.
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"He was an antiwar liberal and a rapacious capitalist, naïve and crafty, friend and enemy, straight and gay, editor and publisher," Hagan writes.
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Complacent directors, horrible management, rapacious greed — wrapped in a package of holistic spirituality and the invention of a new kind of conscious capitalism.
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Last week, U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer called Chinese automotive trade rules "manifestly unfair, and a typically unfortunate example of China's rapacious trading policies".
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"The government will no longer be a committee at the service of a rapacious minority," said the new president, who is often nicknamed AMLO.
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Some were ruined by the interest charged by supply merchants or—after they sold up and were forced into tenant farming—by rapacious landlords.
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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.
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Though on appeal the award is likely to be reduced, it is a warning shot fired across the bow of a rapacious tabloid press.
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A smart Democratic candidate would condemn the rapacious public-sector unions in a "Sister Souljah moment" to defuse the citizenry's palpable anti-union anger.
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Today's progressive Democrats are perennially negative on the future of U.S. capitalism, convinced that income inequality and rapacious corporate greed will doom our growth.
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The best case for Mr. Trump is that white Northerners reluctantly backed Mr. Obama because Mr. Romney was successfully caricatured as a rapacious plutocrat.
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They're utterly unlike us low-class rapacious heathens, who prefer to consume a pile of processed Cheez-Its from a plate, the natural way.
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Now that my carelessness is making itself known, I want a chance to undo some of the damage my rapacious sun worshipping has provoked.
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Make no mistake, this rapacious partisan behavior is what the Supreme Court has just empowered with no realistic checks and balances on partisan self-interest.
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An age of non-commitment, bet-hedging, unbridled narcissism and a rapacious desire to be defined by whatever over-stuffed burger we're plonking on Instagram.
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It suffered only two episodes of untrammelled exploitation—by German occupiers in the first world war and by a rapacious British company in the 723s.
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While Prey is about a rapacious corporation that performs inhumane experiments on unwilling volunteers, Arkane also has a keen eye for innocent low-key absurdity.
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At the bottom of this heritage drive is a highly charged question: is Ethiopia an old nation or the product of a rapacious modern empire?
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Coming from Latin rapere, its oldest sense involves neither sex nor bodily harm; it means to take something by force (as in the adjective, "rapacious").
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In the early 20th century, the roads that rapacious colonization had built now ferried a trickle of adventurous visitors from the West across the territory.
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In the colonial period, the Jats initially suffered under the rapacious rent regime of the British, but they bounced back after the mutiny of 1857.
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Igor Vostrikov, who lost his wife, three children and a sister in the fire, also blamed rapacious officials in an enraged message on social media.
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While traces of these migrations seem subtle or hidden, they are portents of the rapacious extraction of resources and loss of life that eventually followed.
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Its rise has been uniquely fueled by President Trump, who as both a businessman and a politician has embodied a cartoon version of rapacious capitalism.
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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.
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He added another celebrity endorsement, from Michael Douglas, the actor frequently associated with the rapacious Wall Street trader he played in two Oliver Stone movies.
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These include a rapacious band of fur trappers and a disgraced soldier (Ben Foster), who faces hanging as punishment for his indiscriminate killing of natives.
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Bez, it could be argued, is the physical embodiment of the late twentieth century's rapacious desire to enact Andy Warhol's inescapable 15 minutes of fame maxim.
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Looking back some day, I'm guessing people will think it odd that all of the world's information was once in the hands of a rapacious corporation.
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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.
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Bernie Sanders is also telling a successful myth: The corporate and Wall Street elites are rapacious monsters who hoard the nation's wealth and oppress working families.
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He said he wants to restore its true meaning: a symbol of resistance by ordinary people from the South who stood up to the rapacious North.
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The colonial experience was particularly rapacious in Congo, which was treated as nothing more than a source of valuable resources and an expendable slave labor force.
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It needs to stand for the protection of workers and the protection of the planet from the rapacious industries that substitute greed for the national interest.
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The Museum of Modern Art was launched in the late 1920s with money amassed by John D. Rockefeller, possibly the most rapacious of the robber barons.
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In Karamakate's eyes, the European and American marauders who enslaved and destroyed his tribe are agents of an insane culture devoted to genocidal conquest and rapacious destruction.
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Protesters transferred their outrage seamlessly from one to the other, dismissing cuddly Canada as a Trojan horse for rapacious American multinationals seeking to trample on European standards.
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For one, the problems caused by higher mark-ups are truly difficult to solve, because there are no rapacious and lazy monopolists to break up or regulate.
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It traffics in a brand of "Lean In" feminism that seems more concerned with putting women at the top of rapacious mega-corporations than with true egalitarianism.
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They have been shaped by centuries of civil and foreign wars, local strife, religious zealotry, the rapacious nobles' hunger to own land and control those below them.
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Billionaire Warren Buffett, for instance, has such a "tollbooth" strategy for investing, though he uses the term "moat," because it sounds charming and quirky rather than rapacious.
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If rapacious humans continue to ignore the welfare of trees and their green cousins, that folly will end up closing off the source of our very being.
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On the face of things, such rapacious industrialisation of the Finnish forest, which covers three-quarters of the country's landscape, looks the antithesis of tree-hugging environmentalism.
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From what I could gather, there was a byzantine system of licenses that ensured non-Venetians were stuck on crowded ferries, rapacious gondolas or gaudy tour boats.
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The admissions signals sent by selective colleges have spawned a vast and rapacious Youth Sports Industrial Complex that devours childhoods (and parental income) at a frightening rate.
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Mr. Kem Ley called them "political jokes," but usually the joke was on the common people, who were continually being duped by tigers, lions and rapacious rulers.
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That musical drama, like the opera from which it derives, is mostly known as the story of a sexually rapacious young woman and her obsessive, ultimately murderous lover.
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The ugliness is especially visible in these 'viral' moments when other people's lives are snatched and consumed voraciously on the hoof — as yet more content for rapacious feeds.
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It's an extreme version of rapacious capitalism called private equity, and it's played a part in the demise of brands like Toys R Us, Sears and many more.
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So Marks decided to get with the times and flog ecstasy instead—which he found terrifying: the big narco-gangs were rapacious businesses, not cheery, rubber-faced hippies.
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The problem, as always, is our own rapacious overuse of energy, our own monstrous overbuilding of infrastructure, not the few squirrels who are the ensnared victims of it.
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His defense team portrayed Levin as sexually rapacious, and, when the jury was unable to reach a verdict on the charge of murder, he pleaded guilty to manslaughter.
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But each time, he and millions of Ukrainians became disillusioned as the leaders they helped put into power turned out to be as cynically rapacious as their predecessors.
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Waving away the mosquitoes swarming the night air in the southern Sri Lankan town of Gintota, he continued his tirade: Muslims were violent, he said, Muslims were rapacious.
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On Friday, you could almost believe that this Anatol (Ganson Salmon, a dashing lyric tenor) had some genuine feelings for Ms. Yokabaskas's Vanessa mixed into his rapacious greed.
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An oil company, personified by its chief executive (a rapacious Rob Lowe), is drilling in North Dakota when it hits a water-table mother lode of biological activity.
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"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.
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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.
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Even less rapacious monopolies like the old New Jersey-based AT&T — which once owned nearly every telephone in the country — proved themselves to be staid and inefficient.
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Aaron Carr, the executive director of the Housing Rights Initiative, which is backing the lawsuit, called Kushner Companies a "rapacious predator," according to the New York Daily News.
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As Facebook has claimed a near-monopoly on social media, there's little sign that Zuckerberg is willing to slow his company's rapacious growth to prevent the next catastrophe.
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But it is actually of a piece with Japan's post-war tension between asserting itself as a global power and apologizing for its rapacious militarism in World War II.
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Bernie Sanders's campaign—because it highlighted her enmeshment with Wall Street, her brain-dead interventionism and her rapacious money-grubbing since she left the State Department—was the problem.
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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.
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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.
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In "Pom Poko," directed by Takahata, the tanuki defend their woodlands from the rapacious plans of real estate tycoons by turning to the age-old art of shape shifting.
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Its rapacious buying spree hit the brakes — albeit briefly — when it lost out in February to a Dutch rival in a bid for the Italian lingerie brand La Perla.
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"There's only room for one goddess at a time," says the columnist Hedda Hopper (Judy Davis, in a feather-brimmed hat that makes her look like a rapacious egret).
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The good guys, so to speak, outnumbered the pay-for-play "incubators" and the rapacious investors and created what you see today: a tame but useful system for unlocking wealth.
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Disney is making the 2001 novel Artemis Fowl into a movie and honestly it's surprising that it took this long considering Hollywood's rapacious appetite for adapting popular books into films.
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They object to the whole idea of the G20, seeing the summit as the epitome of a global system based on a rapacious economic model and run by unaccountable elites.
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Likewise, when we look at Plainview now, we may see something we hadn't expected: a rapacious, destructive force of the present rather than a remnant of a comfortably distant past.
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Both are about the erasure and re-creation of identity: Eddie gulps a smart drug ("a kind of steroid for the intellect") to become a more rapacious, more victorious Eddie.
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Throughout, Hawley is careful not to allow contemporary mores to color this often surprisingly tranquil and original portrait of an individual who loomed large in our nation's rapacious westward expansion.
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Williams's polar opposite is the resident villain, Leon Rom (Christoph Waltz, predictably good), a silky, uncomplicated sadist who embodies rapacious evil from his all-white suit to his crosslike weapon.
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They will have to defend fundamental rights that call for privacy by design and data minimization against AI's rapacious demand for data and the predictive powers of pattern-spotting algorithms.
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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.
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During a question-and-answer session, one audience member faulted Mr. Holiday for holding up flawed historical figures like John D. Rockefeller, a rapacious capitalist, as a model of Stoicism.
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Sports of The Times With a proud history in San Diego abandoned and a new home filled with opposing fans, the Chargers are a cautionary tale for rapacious N.F.L. ownership.
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Intrusive outsiders have often made matters worse, from the rapacious Belgian King Leopold II in the 19th century to the American cold warriors who propped up Mobutu for being anti-Soviet.
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In a world of $10,000 cables full of dreams and snake oil, I'm pleased that Devialet hasn't gone the rapacious route and is instead building cool speakers for the average person.
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And there's evidence King buys into this notion: On the same broadcast, he recommended Jean Raspail's The Camp of the Saints, which depicts a white genocide committed by rapacious Indian immigrants.
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The school's curriculum recounts the experience of Mao's soldiers during the early years of the revolution, who are portrayed as heroically fighting to free China from rapacious warlords and Japanese invaders.
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We can also thank those on Wall Street who made rapacious capitalism the norm and televangelists who demonstrated that nothing -- not marriage, not faith, not the Ten Commandments -- is sacred anymore.
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Here they involve touchy gang chieftains itching for war, equally quarrelsome police officials squabbling over jurisdiction and one especially "ruthless, rapacious, hands-on, determined" banker trafficking in fishy offshore shell companies.
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But it is a stretch to presume that Mr. Mnangagwa, or ZANU-PF, or the military — all of whom colluded in Mr. Mugabe's rapacious rule — will change stripes once in charge.
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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.
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Would the earth be a pristine, unsmogged paradise, or would the dinosaurs have somehow evolved into even more rapacious profiteers/industrialists, wrecking the world with their dinosaur refineries and dinosaur dark money?
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Now 31, Ms. Waller-Bridge is bringing her sexually rapacious, anger-riddled, flailing London cafe owner to a TV series of the same name (it debuts on Amazon on Friday, Sept. 16).
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It was worrisome that data usage policies of virtually all digital platforms had become increasingly rapacious over the years, allowing them to do what they please with the data they collect assiduously.
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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.
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General Fang's "ideals and convictions had been shaken, he abandoned the mission of the party and degenerated politically, becoming economically rapacious," said an editorial published in the Liberation Army Daily on Wednesday.
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I'm curious about that, is that because Mike Pence thinks that he's just rapacious and out of control and he's going to jump you, so he has to have his wife there?
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Thus Hud, a minor character in Mr. McMurtry's novel, became the film's title character and dominant antihero, a symbol of the rapacious greed and materialism that the screenwriters saw spreading in America.
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Dean Koontz and Patricia Cornwell's Amazon-published books won't be found in most bookstores—they are being blacklisted by many booksellers, in protest of the company's market dominance and rapacious business practices.
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The company's toxic internal culture and rogue business practices were pure extensions of Silicon Valley's clichés, not particularly different from things Microsoft was once admired for, or Amazon's more openly rapacious early years.
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Scrutinizing Gauguin as rapacious sexual louche, self-promotional plagiarist and loquacious raconteur may be no fun, but it's part of the ongoing meditation on how to regard effectual art made by flawed men.
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But alongside that fragmentation, our news and entertainment has been gobbled up by rapacious businesses to the degree that fewer and fewer companies control more and more of what we expose ourselves to.
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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.
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Some crypto investors and executives are deeply skeptical that a company as rapacious as Facebook could ever seriously commit itself to the value of decentralization that's at the core of the crypto industry.
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The escalating jeremiad against "big tech" firms — particularly the idea that they are rapacious monopolists — has long since gone viral and is now hardening into conventional wisdom, but it is grounded in fallacies.
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But unless outright rapacious, exclusionary, and deeply predatory governance is mitigated, the root causes of the insurgency will remain unaddressed and the state-building project will have disappeared into fiefdoms and lasting conflict.
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And if Barr could dig out his conscience from under all those layers of ego, he'd see that the rapacious individual in direst need of restraint is the one he's letting roam free.
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He raised the idea, again, in a recent interview with Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, in which he scoffed at the idea of putting rapacious Libyan warlords and their militias on the payroll.
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A fully nationalized People's Uber could turn instead to state subsidies—but it would still be reproducing, with every tap on every grease-smeared screen, the conditions for the most rapacious and exploitative capitalism.
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Up until pretty recently, both Instagram and WhatsApp had a degree of independence from their rapacious corporate parent — granted brand and operational independence under the original acquisition terms and leadership of their original founders.
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In "Dunbar," Mr. St. Aubyn's reimagining of the tragedy, Lear is an 80-year-old Canadian corporate titan whose global media empire and legacy are under threat from his rapacious daughters, Megan and Abigail.
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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.
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It's official: A second season of Phoebe Waller-Bridge's deliriously smutty series about a sexually rapacious, anger-riddled, flailing London cafe owner has been greenlit — but alas, it won't arrive on Amazon until 2019.
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An MLK203 and ProPublica investigation into the rapacious debt collection practices of nonprofit hospital showed that between 2014 and 2018, the Memphis, Tennessee, hospital had sued more than 8,300 patients for unpaid hospital bills.
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And online, the incident led to a sustained conversation about toxic fan communities, while McDonald's announced that it would roll out even more sauce for what is, essentially, a rapacious bunch of internet trolls.
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"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.
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But these sins either did not strike him as transgressive, or he is so reptilian-brained that he doesn't log the rapacious things he's done, the self-serving decisions he's made, in his own mind.
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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.
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His subject comes under threat when the head of the school's "rapacious" economics department, having turned his department into "a networking program for would-be tycoons," takes charge of a campus-wide quality-assessment scheme.
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Its roots go back to efforts in the Napoleonic era to restore order after the French Revolution, and at its heart is the notion of the worker in permanent need of protection against rapacious capitalists.
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A presidential campaign, in this broken and rapacious moment, is one of the few ways that a person could blow half a billion dollars in a month and change, and that is what Bloomberg did.
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Putting a female in the driver's seat works wonders, too, for the great comic duet "Barcelona," which presents our sexually rapacious heroine with a sweet, smiling flight attendant, Andy, as dim as he is hunky.
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David Dayen, the executive editor at the American Prospect, and Rana Foroohar, associate editor at the Financial Times, discuss the relatively short, trickle-down history of governments using taxpayer dollars to subsidize rapacious corporate behavior.
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"The terms of the agreement will result in very little progress in reforming China's rapacious trade behaviors and seems like it could send a signal to Chinese negotiators that the US can be steamrolled," Sen.
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Violent conflicts between Native Americans and the miners of the Gold Rush during the late 11113s and rapacious development of the area by residents of the new state of California — established in 1850 — forced change.
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When prices are low, as they are now, the most rapacious do not go away; to maintain their profits they become more aggressive, says David Kaimowitz of the Ford Foundation, which gives money to good causes.
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" When I ask him about Musk fans in general, he admits, "I think he has got a bunch of rapacious fans, [people] just dying to see the human race do something constructive and inventive and adventurous.
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In his inaugural address, Lopez Obrador vowed to end the rule of a "rapacious" elite and pledged to bring about a radical rebirth of Mexico that he likens to independence from Spain and the Mexican Revolution.
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The form of government that Mr Levin advocates sounds very different if you are a black American in, say, Ferguson, Missouri, who is accustomed to seeing the federal government as a protector against rapacious local officials.
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Instead of the diet that usually dominates China's airwaves—imperial costume dramas and patriotic pabulum about the second world war—these shows offer a peek at contemporary politics: rapacious officials, factional scheming and abuses of power.
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In the most extreme market distortions, rapacious acquirers often domiciled offshore have affected hostile takeovers of US pharmaceutical companies, fired entire R&D enterprises, and harvested the profits from in-line drugs with remaining patent life.
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Just when the machinations of these two rapacious clans begin to make your blood boil, Foyster switches to a straightforward biographical treatment of John Charles, third earl of Portsmouth, who deserves our attention and our sympathies.
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The work was soon seized upon to support various ideological agendas: a Marxist narrative of class struggle; an allegory of environmental degradation at the hands of rapacious industrialists; a multigenerational drama about a dysfunctional royal family.
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He represents a strand and strain of the American experiment that stubbornly holds on to the misguided notion that we are a nation of destiny and superiority, strengthened on legacies of white supremacy and rapacious capitalism.
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In August alone, they fell 2400 percent, leading some to charge that Italy was paying off Libya's most rapacious warlords at the risk of further destabilizing the fractured North African country, while condemning migrants to misery.
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Progressive reformers were found in all of these new pursuits, and some of them welcomed business education into the university in hopes that a more scientifically trained commercial world would be less rapacious and anti-social.
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"This verdict shows once again that there is no justice in Cambodia for local rights activists struggling to defend their land and communities from rapacious development activities by Prime Minister Hun Sen and his cronies," Robertson said.
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At times their rhetoric hardened into a sort of Trumpism for the left, with rapacious corporations, corrupt politicians and cowed regulators standing in for illegal immigrants and feckless liberals as the cause of all of America's problems.
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The Reconstruction regimes were, in this view, an essentially cynical exercise in which Northern business interests used corrupt puppet governments composed of rapacious carpetbaggers kept in office by the votes of easily manipulated, ill-educated former slaves.
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It is obvious to Newton, and certainly to Moses, that the Glorious Cause of the Confederacy was a rapacious and exploitative cotton-based capitalist economy, and that the resistance to Reconstruction was intended to restore that system.
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The new "Magnificent Seven" begins approximately where the most catastrophic of westerns, "Heaven's Gate" (1980), ended: Peter Sarsgaard, an even more rapacious capitalist than the plutocratic killer Sam Waterston portrayed in "Heaven's Gate," takes over a town.
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Nice thought; but reality intrudes when someone swaps out Ennis Fultz's oxygen supply for a tank of nitrogen, killing that real-estate mogul and clearing the way for some even more rapacious land-grabbers to move in.
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"[W]hile I will never vote for a Democrat in wolf's clothing like Trump, I will also never vote for a candidate as dishonest, as rapacious, as Hillary Clinton," Pletka told Politico's Michael Crowley in an email.
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Bili, truly an immigrant of our globalized time, can't make rent in New York, and discovers on her return to China that her childhood residence, like so many others in China's rapacious housing development drive, was razed.
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But like many another rapacious strongmen, the president, who is 45, is also keenly aware that his loot and his life are safe only as long as he has the presidential levers and guns to preserve them.
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They say that the rising numbers of children taking stimulant medication to treat attentional problems are all victims, sometimes of modern society and its unfair expectations, sometimes of doctors, and most often of the rapacious pharmaceutical industry.
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Gervais was also, he made clear, the guy who doesn't care what anyone else cares about, pre-scolding any winners who made political statements by reminding them that they worked for rapacious companies like Apple and Amazon.
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It chronicles the particular national sins of the late 19th century — the rapacious violence toward the Native Americans, the tragic abandonment of Reconstruction — but even topics one might expect to find remote have the ring of recognition.
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Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer warned Trump in a letter that failing to hammer out a comprehensive agreement that addressed what he called China's "rapacious trade behaviors" would harm U.S. workers and companies for years to come.
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Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer warned Trump in a letter that failing to hammer out a comprehensive agreement that addressed what he called China's "rapacious trade behaviors" would harm U.S. workers and companies for years to come.
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The previously known species is called Spironema and the new one was dubbed Hemimastix kukwesjijk (pronounced "ku–ga–wes–jij–k"), which means "rapacious hairy ogre" in the language of the Mi'kmaq First Nations people of Nova Scotia.
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It's the 11th hour, and the crisis was of our own making, although there's nothing the public really could have done to stop the rapacious lust for lucre that fueled the execs and the so-called public servants.
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We should be able to sell our opinions, our thoughts, and even our DNA to the highest bidder and once the rapacious Web 2.0 vultures are all shooed away, we will find ourselves in an interesting new world.
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The very reason we have laws today that govern federal public lands was to turn the tide against extractive industries and their rapacious appetite for oil, gas, minerals and timber while laying waste our forests, rivers and streams.
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Now 31, Ms. Waller-Bridge spins off her sexually rapacious, anger-riddled, flailing London cafe owner into this series, which begins with Fleabag's arousing herself to a video of President Obama and ends in the key of grief.
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From the blog posts, Sergei said he learned that just a few families like the Rockefellers, the Morgans and the Rothschilds controlled much of the wealth in the United States, and that their banks charged rapacious interest rates.
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When it comes to the crisis of retirement security and asset building, the financial industry has been either callous in a focus on serving only the very wealthy or rapacious as it saddles everyday investors with high fees.
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The movie effectively demonstrates that the open markets pushed by Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher were not constructed with the expectation, or even the hope, that a rapacious actor in the McCreadie mode would behave decently within them.
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The hourlong play, which is presented by Kidoons and WYRD Productions, also explores the nature of identity and the threat of bullying, as Mowgli confronts not only the rapacious tiger, Shere Khan, but also a menacing human hunter.
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Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer warned Trump in a letter that a weak agreement that failed to address what he called China's "rapacious trade behaviors" and structural inequities would harm U.S. workers and companies for years to come.
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And he writes that government has a role to play, if a smaller one than some might wish, in helping a population battered by plant closings, geographical disadvantage, environmental despoiling and centuries of the most rapacious capitalism imaginable.
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The reasons for this impasse are various: in many countries, millions work in the untaxed informal economy; the middle class resents paying taxes to governments they—correctly—perceive as corrupt and rapacious; tax evasion among the rich is rampant.
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Julian Dennison's Russell is the pyrokinetic child at the center of this whole drama, and Dennison (a breakout presence in Taika Waititi's 2016 film Hunt For the Wilderpeople) imbues him with fragility, broken up by flashes of rapacious anger.
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And whenever we were in Moscow, he always had an idea for a story he thought we should pursue: abuse of Central Asian migrants, the destruction of historical buildings by rapacious developers, outrages in Chechnya, pollution in the Arctic.
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Grann's new book, about how dozens of members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma in the 1920s were shot, poisoned or blown to bits by rapacious whites who coveted the oil under their land, is close to impeccable.
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SURVIVORS OF THE tyrannical and rapacious regime of Ferdinand Marcos, strongman of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986, are rejoicing at the prospect of his widow, Imelda—famous for her vast shoe collection—soon having to don prison-issue plastic sandals.
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That sort of valuation speaks to just how much Brazil's startup ecosystem has grown, and how rapacious tech investors with loads of money to spend must now head to emerging markets to find undervalued startups where they can park their cash.
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But within 100 years, the nation developed explosively into a far-flung industrial society—generating countless problems along the way, from rapacious monopoly to unregulated drugs, that the founders never anticipated and their antiquated government was never designed to handle.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Veteran leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador took office as Mexican president on Saturday, vowing to see off a "rapacious" elite in a country struggling with corruption, chronic poverty and gang violence on the doorstep of the United States.
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A few minutes later, the action has shifted to the 2008 Russo-Georgian War, where the Orthodox chaplain of a particularly rapacious and kleptomaniacal Russian unit changes from his religious costume to his military one, briefly revealing his mob tattoos.
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"Honey" was also, apparently, influenced by the bleak destruction illustrated in Adam Curtis' Bitter Lake and its argument of our complicity in rapacious globalization, which is a lot to take in on a Wednesday morning but, trust us, it's worth it.
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Overall, Bannon sees himself, Breitbart, and now Trump as allies in what he calls a "global populist movement," which is taking back the interests of "the people" against various malefactors like rapacious capitalists, open borders "globalists," unauthorized immigrants, and radical Islamists.
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With the passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, Trump's single legislative "win," the designers of that world — the morally bankrupt Republican party and its rapacious donor class — have dropped their masks and shown themselves for what they really are.
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She is pushing up against his hard edges not because she desires his rigid code, but because she knows that subverting what Dick wants is a vital way to tap into her own ambition, wobbly and rapacious as it may be.
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The son of a carpenter, Widodo is the first Indonesian president who doesn't hail from the elite and is a force for some incremental and moderate reforms to the country's corrupt political system and rapacious wage-theft–enabling economic order.
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He discussed plumbing, greens replacement, and Jack Nicklaus in what had to be one of the worst performances by a politician on foreign shores since President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran ranted about "rapacious capitalism" at the United Nations General Assembly.
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A few suggestions: In the 19th century, white people in the United States were driven by an adventurous, rapacious spirit to go West, earning fortunes and committing atrocities against indigenous communities along the way to "settling" the entire American continent.
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ScienceTake The eponymous maw of the largemouth bass — and the fish's ability to suck prey into that gaping gullet in a rapacious strike — are part of the lore and legend of the bass to the many anglers who pursue it.
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In a time when rapacious ogres occupy the highest offices from Washington to West Hollywood, it is more important than ever to teach girls the power to take control of narratives that are all too often in the hands of men.
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But if your real goals are money and power (as opposed to say, making the world a better place), you're more apt to see your opponents as a threat to your very existence, as rapacious and cynical as you are.
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The flooding is all but a natural catastrophe, caused by the indiscriminate tampering with an ecosystem nurtured by Venice for centuries, the impact of the cruise ships, threatening new intrusive excavations of the lagoon and the rapacious investment in tourism.
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Joshua Cohen's Moving Kings is a swift, darkly funny, surprising—and brilliant—novel about two young Israelis, recently released from compulsory military stints, who get pressed into the service of a minor but rapacious storage-and-moving magnate in New York.
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That's the entire purpose of the registry: it was supposed to give parents the tools they needed to protect their children in the face of a threat so (supposedly) rapacious that law enforcement couldn't be trusted to keep it at bay.
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Ali's exploratory, politicized lesbianism offends her more traditional girlfriend (Carrie Brownstein, who also shows up for a minute in "Carol") and amuses the roving, rapacious Sarah, who, while stewing in a sauna, basically says that she couldn't care less about the patriarchy.
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A satire involving an evangelical impostor who infiltrates the household of a gullible nobleman, the plot neatly transposes to a place where "a vulnerability to strange and rapacious belief systems" remains "endemic", as Christopher Hampton, the translator, puts it in the programme notes.
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She evinced no attribute here that, say, Marco Rubio doesn't have—other than a willingness to say the word "racist," and to note that rapacious businessmen frequently "steal people's money," and to say these things in a setting where conservatives might hear her.
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Armed with a bunch of bananas and a rapacious need to sleep—even for a minute or two, just a minute or two—I slapped 4 HOURS Calm Music: New Age for Meditation, Most Relaxing Music, Yoga, Massage & Deep Sleep, SPA on.
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Through its rapacious little-to-no profit strategy, it has not only challenged the supremacy of traditional retailers like Walmart, but has also put downward price pressure on companies across the economy, most notably in book publishing, where Amazon got its start.
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They seemed to think they could blow past the past, walling off the candidate and ignoring the imbroglios that were obvious fodder for the pack of hungry Democrats and the rapacious president who would soon be in full cry after the front-runner.
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It is not for us to second-guess them by saying, wait a minute don't you want a cellphone, or to inflict colonialism on them for their "own good" and our rapacious greed for beautiful land and whatever other resources their island contains.
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A former junior college basketball player and Christian-rock-band frontman, he wandered into politics by running a conservative website that became a megaphone for Mike Hubbard, a rapacious and corrupt speaker of the House of Representatives in Sims's home state of Alabama.
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No way he would survive the rapacious "activist investor" Paul Singer, who accumulated 4 percent of the company's shares and submitted a slate of directors vowing to kick Dorsey all the way to Africa, where he was planning to spend time anyway.
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As he sees it, Jensen bears major responsibility for the rapacious hostile takeovers and the obsession with stock prices and short-term results that led to the Enron and WorldCom scandals, as well as for the emergence of outlandishly high chief executive pay.
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Beset by strife and chaos since the dictator Siad Barre was ousted in 1991, Somalia has become a byword for chronic state collapse, torn between a stew of rapacious, heavily armed militias and, for a time, linked to piracy on the high seas.
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"The president may not blame China, but I do, and so do millions of Americans who voted for him and others who have lost their jobs at the hands of China's rapacious trade policies," Schumer said in response to Trump's remarks in Beijing.
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With Mr. Scott, Mr. Plummer instead creates a rapacious man whose hunger for wealth and power (and more money, always more) has hollowed him out and whose fatherly touch, at its most consuming, brings to mind Goya's painting of Saturn eating his son.
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That could all be re-litigated by Alphabet if it calls any number of current and former Uber executives to the stand to paint a picture of a rapacious corporate culture — which might explain how Uber found itself in possession of Alphabet's files.
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And in The Hunger, as the gradually decomposing plaything of a blood-drinking monster, he's an entirely different kind of fantasy: a 400-year-old vampire's mate who starts out representing sex and rapacious consumption of life, and winds up representing decay and death.
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So, although another son of the Bronx, A$AP Rocky, played at the opening night party on Thursday, August 11, for many activists, artists, and concerned citizens, the entire event seemed like a sales tactic to provide street cred and cover for rapacious developers.
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The $69 billion ride-hailing company, which for years had operated as a freewheeling and rapacious startup with billions in the bank led by a cutthroat founder, was forced to atone for its sins at the hands of one of its former employees: Susan Fowler.
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If, on the other hand, you look at Bloomberg through the Bernie lens you see a rapacious billionaire who amassed a gross amount of wealth, who became an authoritarian mayor and targeted young black men and then tried to buy his way to power.
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She wove her deliriously smutty preoccupations, along with a wallop of rage, into "Fleabag," a show at the 2013 Edinburgh Festival Fringe that, once she hit her 30s, she spun off into this series about a sexually rapacious, anger-riddled, flailing London cafe owner.
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"The terms of the agreement will result in very little progress in reforming China's rapacious trade behaviors and seems like it could send a signal to Chinese negotiators that the U.S. can be steamrolled," Schumer wrote in a letter to the White House dated Monday.
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Stevens casts his beloved wife Alexis in the roles of both women, and in "Virginia," he draws one of the scenes from the point of view of the rapacious rich man, by implication associating the viewer with the crime as his hands reach towards her.
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Image 2 of 2 MEXICO CITY – On the campaign trail, presidential front-runner Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has railed against a corrupt and "rapacious minority" of business executives who oppose him because they know they will have to "stop stealing" if he wins the July 1 election.
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However, labeling pharmaceutical companies as rapacious misidentifies the problem, which is that a very long line could likely be drawn from the nickel-and-diming afflicting nurses on hospital floors to the money used to promote Viagra -- or any so-called "blockbuster drug" -- combined with its profits.
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You wince as you read the opening chapters, knowing that, with the fateful inevitability of Greek tragedy, the composer-songwriter-singer is going to sign a deal with a rapacious music publisher as a dewy-eyed youngster and then spend the rest of his life regretting it.
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So if you consider rapacious appetite for ad padding 'a problem', then Articoolo is offering 'a solution' of sorts — albeit probably just another gap filler, treading water until digital marketing missives can be wrapped unmissably across people's eyeballs via some kind of vision-disrupting augmented reality.
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The style transfer craze kicked off by an app called Prisma a couple of years ago led to a tsunami of painterly selfies flooding social feeds for several months, as we reported at the time, before the rapacious, face-snapping hoards shifted their attention toward fresh spectacles.
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Armed with nothing more than crap coffee, some couscous, and the rapacious need to unmask the inspiration behind a saxophone-heavy eastern European club-pop record that was never actually that good in the first place, I set about turning my desk into a missing person's bureau.
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Staten Island, apparently the New Zealand of the tristate area, is now home base for Nandor the Relentless (Kayvan Novak), a medieval Ottoman warrior; Laszlo (Matt Berry), a Romantic-era English dandy; and Nadja (Natasia Demetriou), Laszlo's rapacious old flame and now hunting partner with benefits.
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Whatever the state of (non)negotiations with the Taliban, governance in Afghanistan cannot persist in the condition of paralysis of the past two years or the rapacious, predatory, and self-interested behavior of Afghan power brokers going back to the era of former President Hamid Karzai.
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As DC Films tries to figure out what to do with the hero, though, it is worth looking at those early stories, in which Superman uses his not yet all-encompassing power to directly confront the villainous indifference and corruption of rapacious wealthy capitalists and racist thugs.
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" — Institute for Justice Attorney Josh House Doraville's policies "place a huge burden on not only the homeowners but those who are in the area driving and have to think about, 'Am I going to cross the border into this town and be subject to a rapacious law enforcement?
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Meanwhile, a handful of multi-billionaires have expanded their grip on the world's wealth, largely via rapacious sectors like finance, real estate and fossil fuel production; as identified by Oxfam in early 2017, a mere eight men now possess the same amount of wealth as 3.5 billion people.
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His commitment to working people has always been in doubt (did anyone really expect more from a rapacious real estate mogul who hid his taxes and pledged to repeal Obamacare?), and this has only been affirmed by his policies since taking office, which have been bog-standard Republicanism.
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The report was coordinated by the Antiquities Coalition, the Asia Society and the Middle East Institute and it reflected broad frustration at the inability of the United States and other governments around the world to stanch the rapacious looting that has occurred since Syria's civil war began in 2011.
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The search for someone more satisfying to blame – like rapacious deans – may help explain why a writer like the law professor Paul Campos would throw together a shockingly incoherent set of data in the New York Times — a number salad — to make a totally unconvincing case for administrative bloat.
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Rather than treating allies like reckless teenagers who can't be trusted without Uncle Sam's constant supervision, or feckless weaklings that will jump at the chance to capitulate to rapacious neighbors, Washington should empower mature, like-minded states to deal with local challenges before they become regional or global crises.
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Add the British reliance upon South Africa's gold and uranium, not to mention the discovery of diamonds in Bechuanaland, and the result is a nasty, complex, and rapacious episode, smoldering with all the huff and dudgeon that you expect to find at the butt end of any imperial project.
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What do you imagine rapacious companies would ... I think it was certainly imports, but I thought it was also globalization in general, with the internet, with the digitalization, it became much easier for a garment manufacturer or a refrigerator manufacturer to produce overseas rather than in the United States.
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WASHINGTON — When Education Secretary Betsy DeVos began rolling back regulations to curb the predatory practices of for-profit colleges, critics seethed that the Trump administration was throwing yet another lifeline to a rapacious industry — in this case, one that sees vulnerable undergraduates as nothing more than moneymaking targets.
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But immediately the collaboration was announced concerns were raised that the government is recklessly mixing the streams of critical (and sensitive) national healthcare infrastructure with the rapacious data-appetite of a foreign tech giant, with both an advertising and ecommerce business, plus major ambitions of its own in the healthcare space.
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Donald J. Trump, the Republican presidential candidate, for example, has been widely accused of stoking anti-immigrant passions by proposing a wall to keep out what he described as rapacious Mexicans, and a moratorium on travel to the United States by all Muslims from abroad because they might include terrorists.
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About 80% of Uganda's cotton is exported, but because its fields are far inland and the cotton has to travel over rutted roads past rapacious officials, the price these farmers receive is only 60-70% of the international benchmark for delivery to Asia, a lower share than goes to American farmers.
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A lavishly man-bunned Matt Damon stars as White Savior—sorry, William—a freelance medieval mercenary (he fights for gold, not honor; gunpowder, not glory) who joins forces with China's fighting elite to battle the Tao Tie, a rapacious horde of homicidal reptiles hellbent on breaching the ancient city of Bianliang.
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Wall-E is the tale of a little robot left alone on earth to clean up after humans literally trashed the place, then took off for a comfy life in outer space, where their rapacious need for consumption has turned them into blobs who can't stand and move on their own.
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Disenfranchised settlers, driven from their homes into banditry and the mountains, are the good guys; the rapacious bounty hunters sent to kill them on behalf of a malevolent banker are the capitalist villains, depositing their victims' corpses, for which they receive cash, in the snow — frozen assets for later retrieval.
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Published in October 2018, Moisey's The American Fraternity: An Illustrated Ritual Manual chronicles a startling pantomime of stunted, rapacious youth alongside the text of a 60-year-old "ritual book" discovered on the floor of an unnamed fraternity at University of California, Berkeley, which the artist attended for his BA and PhD degrees.
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The run will include plays about race and justice ("American Son", "To Kill a Mockingbird"), gay love and shame ("Torch Song Trilogy", "The Prom", "Choir Boy"), rapacious greed and hucksterism ("Glengarry Glen Ross"), perverse news-spinning ("Network", "Ink"), and the grisly fate of a vain ruler who is undermined by his inner circle ("King Lear").
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And if that seems a strange thing to say about Shakespeare's murderous thane, well, head over to Classic Stage Company and let Corey Stoll persuade you otherwise with a stunningly smart, bracingly lucid embodiment of a man who, step by step, cedes his soul to his own darkest impulses, in rapacious pursuit of personal glory.
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Some human activity — such as fire suppression, land development and fire ignitions — is thought to have also contributed to the wildfire problem, and Dr. Williams said that prescribed fires might be able to help slow the rapacious appetite of Western wildfires, but the effect of these factors on aridity was not included in the study.
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A posthumous manifesto by Giovanni Buttarelli, who until his death this summer was Europe's chief data protection regulator, seeks to join the dots of surveillance capitalism's rapacious colonization of human spaces, via increasingly pervasive and intrusive mapping and modelling of our data, with the existential threat posed to life on earth by manmade climate change.
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And he is diligent in documenting what comes across as Brooks's rapacious need to receive the lion's share of recognition on works he produced with collaborators, sometimes undercutting creative partners like Buck Henry (to whom Brooks would later apologize for not more fully crediting his contributions in the making of the television series "Get Smart").
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Mitch McConnell speaks with reporters following his speech to the monthly meeting of the Rotary Club, Tuesday, May 26, 2015, in Elizabethtown Ky.Photo: Timothy D. Easley / APThe consumer protections widely known as "net neutrality" are hugely popular among Republicans throughout the U.S., if only because cable and internet providers are American's choice example of rapacious corporate gluttony.
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They've managed to portray to themselves and, to some degree to the world, certainly to the western world, the British Empire as some sort of benign exercise in altruism, which is far from being the truth … The fact is that it was neither benign nor altruistic; it was deeply rapacious, and deeply self-centered and self-benefiting.
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Henderson, who owns a stocky Labrador with such a rapacious appetite that it once swallowed mittens off the hands of a girl petting her, explains that Raffan's DNA findings in dogs have made people in his company and the field more interested in the role of beta-MSH deficiencies and how that hormone might also be contributing to obesity.
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Owning it outright, however, would give the Murdochs an important new cash generator to feed the rapacious appetite for growth and conquest that has made their family business the most influential media conglomerate in the world — one that helped hasten Britain's "Brexit" from the European Union and helped deliver Donald J. Trump to the White House.
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Vindman and most of the other witnesses who have defied Trump administration orders not to testify, have -- one after the other -- explained their unquestioning commitment to their country; to a policy in Ukraine that was meant to promote democratic reforms, freedom; a policy meant to help Ukraine come into its own against a rapacious, aggressive, undemocratic, corrupt Russia.
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A new book, "The Golden Passport" by Duff McDonald, argues that HBS has lost its crown as the top business school in America and also become a breeding ground for toxic behaviour, with conflicts of interests rife within the school, and its alumni responsible for pushing a rapacious form of capitalism that explains many of the ills of the world's biggest economy.
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Instead, I came across a different sort of problem: a rapacious ecosystem in which high-volume gamblers, often aided by computer scripts and optimization software that allow players to submit hundreds or even thousands of lineups at a time, repeatedly take advantage of new players, who, after watching an ad, deposit some money on DraftKings and FanDuel and start betting.
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Second, being a model on a runway is a bit like being a gladiator in the coliseum: stared at by a rapacious throng, often wearing a revealing costume you are not entirely convinced of; either too hot or too freezing; in pain because your sample-size shoes don't fit; and sometimes terrified you are going to fall on your face.
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From the moment that Trump stepped into the office of the presidency, he has degraded it — with words that a president has no business speaking (or tweeting); with ceaseless lies; with infantile and often unhinged behavior; with raging conflicts of interest; with managerial ineptitude; with a rapacious ego that's never sated; and with foreign dealings that compromise America's values, independence and interests.
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Editorial Following a contentious vote on Sunday that effectively set Venezuela on the path to outright dictatorship, the United States has imposed personal sanctions on President Nicolás Maduro, putting him in the rarefied company of sitting leaders like Syria's Bashar al-Assad, North Korea's Kim Jong-un and Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe, whose rapacious greed for power has brought their countries to ruin.
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Fresh anxieties about the precariousness of work and the increasingly precarious place of the worker have, meanwhile, permeated the cultural mainstream, from mounting critiques of the so-called gig economy to the teachers' strikes enjoying popular support nationwide to Steven Spielberg's "Ready Player One," a Hollywood vision of the future that features characters who become indentured servants to rapacious tech overlords.
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Thus the audience receives long soliloquies on the need for widespread schooling reform and educational organizations created by and for local communities; on the rapacious and mercenary policies permitting the rising rents in New York City that displace long-term residents and shrink our quality of life; on HIV and AIDS awareness and prevention; on the usefulness of a meditation practice.
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However, it is striking to notice that in so many places where China was until recently a rapacious interloper that didn't care about human rights and was just commercially minded, now they've got regional envoys doing shuttle diplomacy in places like Sudan, trying to get big splashy political settlements exactly in the arena where we've stepped back, and I think partly because we've stepped back.
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Look, the baby-faced innocent in the college-boy gray T-shirts is nothing but another rapacious capitalist, a cutthroat competitor from the company's earliest start-up days, who wants nothing more than to privatize the profits and socialize the losses like all the rest of them, in this case by avoiding the responsibilities of legacy news sources by pretending that Facebook isn't one.
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As we walk through an allée of topiaried cypress, Van Noten says that he and his longtime partner in both business and life, Patrick Vangheluwe, often joke that they'll someday write a book titled "The Depressed Gardener," about all the things that can go wrong in a garden, no matter the allowances made for changing climates, unpredictable weather, rapacious insects and on and on.
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The odds are that we will never find out: the safest bet to the approaching fiscal train wreck in the Prairie State is that the rapacious (get used to that adjective) hedge funds that own their bonds will be the ones paying for the state's fresh start, as that is much more politically palatable to the Democratic machine that runs the state than making voters or state pensioners take a hit.
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"When President Trump shows weakness and backs off on the area where he's been the toughest with China, it signals to them they can roll over us on issue after issue where they have been rapacious in terms of how they deal with our economy, our intellectual property, the ability of great American companies not to sell things to China," he said Tuesday from the Senate floor. Sen.
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Fang Fenghui is suspected of giving and taking bribes, a state-run news outlet said, adding that he "abandoned the mission of the party and degenerated politically, becoming economically rapacious," And the Times Magazine explores the mystery of Guo Wengui, above, the exiled billionaire whistle-blower who from a Central Park penthouse has exposed a phenomenal web of corruption in China's ruling elite — if, that is, he's telling the truth.
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While the self-titled LP saw them edging ever closer to the club, but with an eye still on the gloomier, scattier end of the gig venue spectrum, this month's 25:25 finds them in the middle of the dancefloor with arms aloft, a stomach full of substances and a rapacious desire to absolutely pummel the PA. Weaving between stark minimal techno—of the bleepy, Sweet Exorcist variety—and swinging, surging house, it's the sound of a group happy to spend long weekends by the booth.
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Letters To the Editor: Re "Philip Roth's 'Toxic Masculinity,' " by Sam Lipsyte (Op-Ed, May 24): When I imagine a woman writing about men with the same tone of rapacious objectification as we were subjected to for 50 years under the mind-bending thrall of Philip Roth, I am left at one place only: I know — and many women who write know — that to say something mean or nasty about men in the manner Mr. Roth wrote about women is a recipe for rejection, ridicule and non-publication.
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As an essay on the art world, however, the film mostly confirms popular assumptions: that museums prop up a lot of work by second-rate artists by resorting to empty theoretical language; that many visitors think a lot of the work they're seeing is shit but are too polite to say so; that many men in power are cads and frauds; that the art world makes a cynical pretense of concern for social justice when it's completely indifferent to the homeless people down the block; that wealthy donors are rapacious capitalists who like to see artists behave like apes until the act crosses the line, in which case they're happy to punish them.
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