Word: self-interest
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...Self-interest is the guiding principle," of protest, Katz says. Chris Ferguson, an organizer of the suicide pill referendum goes further. He feels that protest "has to come from within," adding that he believes the activists' "creative protests" get people to understand the personal implication of an issue...
...healthy regard for toleration, diversity, and the rights and interests of the underclass. Galbraith, Schlesinger, the Kennedys. That's the model that draws us here, but how much of it is real? How much of what is asserted in the name of liberalism on this campus is merely enlightened self-interest that disappears when out own lives are at stake? Does principled opposition to the death penalty evaporate when the victim is one of us? The evidence does not support the answer we like to hear...
...chairman of the party's disciplinary commission, for example, is thought to favor Soviet- style economic planning and to oppose Deng's open-door policy to the West. Other party officials also distrust Deng's reforms because of their capitalistic flavor, but much of their opposition is rooted in self-interest. For Deng's programs to work, people with managerial and intellectual skills will be needed to run them. Yet a large percentage of China's 40 million party members have never even finished primary school...
Significantly, many Salvadoran coffee growers seem less resentful of the rebels' role in labor negotiations than of government export and foreign- exchange taxes, because these levies are higher. Even in a country as bitterly divided as El Salvador, political enmity can take a back seat to economic self-interest...
...recently noted, "The office of Attorney General requires a person who can symbolize' the highest standards of honor, integrity, and freedom from favoritism or other self-interest in the performance of public office." Ed Meese is no such person, and the fact that those who point this out are subjected to criticism as partisans is a sad indicator of the declining standards to which our public officials are increasingly held...