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  • Apple tries to nab ‘podcast’ p2p news/p2pnet: - Apple the Avaricious is trying to virtually collar podcast as a company trademark.

    Apple tries to nab ‘podcast’ 2005

  • Avaricious individuals feeding off other avaricious individuals, I guess. ehwilson429

    RNC fires finance director in wake of spending scandals 2010

  • Avaricious local officials gouge revenue by inventing new fines and administrative charges to levy on business.

    China's Gray Budget Tom Orlik 2011

  • Avaricious individuals may acknowledge one reaps what one sows.

    Capitalism; Dead, Alive, and Broken 2009

  • Avaricious people gathered proof of this when they looked at the eyes of the good man, to which the yellow metal seemed to have conveyed its tints.

    Eug�nie Grandet 2007

  • We need to stop electing people not so very bright, and stop electing people who are Avaricious.

    How To Regain Our Freedom Forever! Part I of Two Parts 2007

  • Avaricious and susceptible investors are lured into investment swindles by the promise of impossibly high profits or interest payments.

    The Bursting Asset Bubbles 2007

  • Avaricious pleasure at the belief that she would now be wealthy?

    Master of Pleasure Jordan, Penny 2006

  • Avaricious greed rules the day with corporate theft and government by Bush competing for yet another headline screaming of lies and corruption.

    The Enemy is Us (APOLOGIES TO POGO) 2005

  • Avaricious little leper, exiled to a red brick apartment building on which the sun shone for only one hour a day in winter, on Winthrop Avenue, right next to a train line that never shut down, on the edge of a slum, two blocks from ice blue Lake Michigan and the high-rise towers of the well-to-do, just one block from our own basement apartment with the pipes running all along the ceiling.

    Waiting for Snow in Havana Carlos Eire 2003

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