This puts Greene the "Catholic novelist" (a description he detested) into correct perspective: before he chose Christ as his highest value, he was first a man obsessed with scale itself.
An egoist is someone whose self-interest is his highest value.
Museums might have been inviting targets because they would have allowed the thief to spend hours blending in with patrons as he took note of security protocols and selected his high-value targets.
Mr Sabharwal, pointing to a firm that bought machines rather than give permanent employment to 16 tea-boys, says it encourages the substitution of capital for labour.Labouring the pointOn a bigger scale, Bharat Forge's Mr Kalyani cites the same reasons—"archaic" labour laws and the lack of political will to change them for his "high-value" business model.
His rule for hiring at the N.S.C. is to find people who are, in his words, "high value, low maintenance".
By modelling the topology of genius and fear, Canin has achieved a proof of his own high value to American fiction.
And his high market value combined with the recent reduction in the salary cap for counties from £2.19m to £1.97m has killed off any prospect of a return.
"Why can't we stand tall for high moral values?" He went even further in touting his high moral values.
Even President Obama's new director of national intelligence, Dennis C. Blair, wrote in a memorandum to his staff last week that "high value information came from interrogations in which these methods were used," an assertion left out when the memorandum was edited for public release.
And while he works hard and learned quickly from early mistakes, he like others from his generation, puts a high value on interests outside of work, Villasante said.
Crick, who set a high value on his privacy, seems not to have left biographers a great deal to work with beyond what is already on the record.
