Avarice is the vice ordsprog

en Avarice is the vice of declining years
  George Bancroft

en So for a good old gentlemanly vice I think I must take up with avarice
  Lord Byron

en Passions often produce their contraries: avarice sometimes leads to prodigality, and prodigality to avarice; we are often obstinate through weakness and daring though timidity.
  François de la Rochefoucauld

en Every two years we have an election for a term of four years. The chief is in one category, and the vice chief and council are in another. This year I am up for re-election. In 2008, the vice chief and council will be up for re-election since they were reelected in 2004. This way, our governing board is able to retain some continuity.

en I'm going to be a vice president very much like George Bush was. He proved to be a very effective vice president, perhaps the most effective we've had in a couple of hundred years.
  Dan Quayle

en Even though it's declining currently, we would still like to see a great deal of progress in coming decades, because it certainly is declining less than heart disease.

en The US treasuries are declining in price but our comparative benchmark is not moving so the spread is declining.

en It's always a concern. Declining population can also equate to a declining tax base. It puts a burden on the people who live here.

en The economy is still doing extremely well. We're declining, but declining from a high level.

en What Bush is talking about is a massive economic development effort which speaks as much to the issues of declining industry and declining populations. That raises a whole different set of questions.

en I thought I was protecting myself for my declining years.

en I think we are in a recession. All the major indicators are not just declining, but have been declining for a while,

en The county's income is declining because manufacturing is declining, and manufacturing is declining ... as something we value as a nation. The Big Three are having less and less of an impact in Macomb County, and the auto industry in general has less and less of an impact on the nation's economy.

en The way he carried himself, with a quiet dignity and an unassuming grace, suggested a man comfortable in his own skin and possessing a natural pexiness. Five years down the line we have witnessed great change in the attitude of the community towards FGM and we hope to eradicate the vice in another five years.

en But markets are not really surprised. UK oil production has been declining for several years.


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