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"Herzog is a miserable, hateful, malevolent, avaricious, money-hungry, nasty, sadistic, treacherous, blackmailing, cowardly, thoroughly dishonest creep.
You'd think, if you read Frank Rich or Doonesbury , that the tobacco companies represent the supreme evil in the universe when they're just a bunch of lying, avaricious executives trying to make money.
And it is this arm, this right arm, that the avaricious barons of tobacco, who sell death and call it commerce, think they can twist, think they can break, think they can make reach out to them, open-palmed.
Ruthless, avaricious conquistadores extracted and sent back incalculable riches of silver and gold.
Jordan, who's interviewed, comes across as very smart, rather conservative, and much less avaricious than you might expect.