Word: altruism
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...public altruism...
...income-tax system - 15 percent, 28 percent, 31 percent, 36 percent and 39.6 - to four, lower ones of 10 percent, 15 percent, 25 percent and 33 percent. Lower across the board, lower for everybody. And yielding big enough individual savings, Bush hopes, to overcome eight years of Clinton-induced altruism among voters more concerned with deficits than their own pocketbooks...
...felt a nerve tweak in the back of my neck from the massive cringe I suffered through the rest of the movie. After being crowned Miss Illinois, Mona tries to outdo Miss Texas (Bridget Wilson) who was hospitalized for giving marrow to her foster sister in meaningless altruism. One particular scene in which she carts a pregnant woman to the hospital in a shopping cart full of marshmallows (no, it doesn't make more sense when you actually see it) had me gawking in dumbfounded amazement at the brazen act of courage which it must have taken for the producers...
LEVY: The language of altruism is absolutely gone from the political debate. It is astounding to me. If you have to talk other than money, if you say, "I'm doing it because it's the right thing, because it's important," people look at you like you're nuts. How did you answer that when you were in government? You could have done other things...
...will be the challenge of the next quarter-century. The danger is the view--common among politicians--that this neutrality takes care of itself. But we have never seen the owners of a large-scale network voluntarily choose to keep it open and free; we should not expect such altruism now. The Internet has taught us the value of such a network. But the government should not be shy to make sure we don't forget...