that does not change the fact that the owners are incredibly greedy not to accept a $3 billion cash offer Hard-nosed seems like a better term. In many cases in

that does not change the fact that the owners are incredibly greedy not to accept a $3 billion cash offer Hard-nosed seems like a better term. In many cases indistinguishable by obserbation, but Greed is both pejorative and moralizing. Absent special knowledge of the principals state of mind, its use also seem presumptory.