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He would think women were shallow, narcissistic, selfish, greedy, grasping, money-loving freeloaders.

What about your brain and your ethics, you grasping, money-mad moron – do you love them too?

In its grasping money-grab, the government inadequately explained its ambition and failed to engage in debate.

You can have enough money, and I am not that grasping about money, but it is still a fact.

When one finally grasps what money's purpose really is, they will be free from the tyranny of Mammon (the idol worshiped as the giver of riches).

But I also fear that most folks, including many lawyers, haven't yet grasped how money, and the strings attached to it, also is pouring into judicial elections.

Unless we heed the wisdom of Justice Stevens and grasp that money is merely a mechanism, a means not unlike a megaphone or microphone used to amplify a voice in a park, we will sink deeper and deeper into the corruption that breeds cynicism -- a cynicism that already explains the decline in voting.

He grasped the money-making significance of tour sponsorship and advertising deals with major companies, and helped build the group into a global brand, readily identified by its grotesque tongue logo.

Having belatedly grasped the money-making potential of web-search, Mr Semel then bought Inktomi, another search engine, and in 2003 he bought Overture, the pioneer of paid-search advertising.But Inktomi and Overture languished ignominiously inside Yahoo!, which Mr Semel was simultaneously trying to turn into a new sort of media company.

Talking to the elves, seeing the children smile, guiding the creative side of Christmas, these are the things that drive him, he says.Yet the owner of the trademark beard and belly-laugh is also a man shrewd enough to have grasped the money-making potential of Christmas when nobody saw it as a commercial enterprise at all, and many thought it doomed to merge with New Year.

You can see why big newspaper managers – say Mark Thompson at the New York Times – grow indignant when "cynical", "money-grasping" adblocking businesses demand money from papers in return for leaving their ads unblocked.

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