Word: altruism
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...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...
...motivated as much by enlightened self-interest as by altruism, but the decision by five pharmaceutical giants to slash the price of AIDS drugs in Africa has the potential to be an important milestone in the battle against the killer disease. Bristol Myers Squibb, Glaxo Wellcome PLC, Merck and Co., Boehringer Ingelheim GmbH and Roche Holding AG are set Thursday to announce a program negotiated with the United Nations to cut the price of AIDS drugs by as much as 90 percent on a continent where more than 23 million people are infected with HIV. The business context for that...
Erdemer said DeVore's course is more than sex; it is also about abortion, child care, reciprocal altruism and charity...