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Avarice (from Latin avarus , 'greedy'; 'to crave') is the inordinate love for riches. Its special malice, broadly speaking, lies in that it makes the getting and keeping of money, possessions, and the like, a purpose in itself to live for. It does not see that these things are valuable ...
The first step toward U.N. reform is clearing the way for experts from the Procurement Task Force to be hired by the OIOS.
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I. THE MEANING OF THE WORD ( Pistis , fides). In the Old Testament , the Hebrew means essentially steadfastness , cf. Exod., xvii, 12, where it is used to describe the strengthening of Moses' hands; hence it comes to mean faithfulness , whether of God towards man ( ...