Word: self-interest
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Speaking at the Mount Auburn Steak House in his native Watertown, Tolman, 26, told family members, supporters, and local Democrats who packed the restaurant that "many of my generation have been criticized for their narrow self-interest" and said he hoped to prove himself an exception as "a candidate of compassion, concern, dignity and integrity...
Your editorial of Feb. 12, on Haiti adopts the tone that the United States was responsible for the Duvalier dynasty's rule, and that we should now provide aid to Haiti as a form of reparations. I personally think that both charity and self-interest should motivate us to help Haiti; but your attempt to blame this country for the Duvaliers is absurd...
...Although it may be in the self-interest of a skipper to hope another skipper doesn't do well so that he can substitute," Schumann said, "there seems to be more of a concern for the team than for the skipper and his crew...
...articles have presented collegiate efforts to promote community service as an effective statement against "Reaganite self-interest". The caption running under President Bok's picture announced that he was "waging war against yuppiedom," and Vice President for Government and Community Affairs John Shattuck was quoted as believing that the program could help contest "the perception among the public at large that students are selfish and that yuppies are taking over the world...
Gould said the coexistence necessary for human survival is biologically possible. Whether it will happen socially, in light of the "intrinsic conflicts" between the individual's self-interest and the interest of the species at large, is questionable, he said...