Word: self-interest
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...slice of America the cartooned pair was meant to symbolize: "Greenwich Village make-out men, wine and cheese parties...bosses who thought it was a violation of friendship to ask for a raise, anxious fathers sand possessive mothers. Village men and women explaining themselves in an endless babble of self-interest, self-loathing, and evasion." Bernard and Huey, Feiffer expains, were "Robert Benechley heroes launched into the Age of Freud...
This week has been one of those times. The state legislators convened for their lame-duck session Monday, and they quickly demonstrated their instinct for self-interest and their aversion to bold political action...
Ranee Grain, editor in chief of Grain's Chicago Business, a financial weekly, admits that an element of self-interest is behind his firm's decision to teach journalism in Carl Schurz High School. But Grain defines that self-interest broadly: "A weak school system means weak students, and that means weak employees, weak managers-and a weak society." -By Ellie McGrath...
...many, France seems to be playing the "oil card" in the Middle East, to the detriment of the Jews. The French must import 75 percent of their energy, so self-interest often supersedes morality, and the French often come across as avidly anti-Israel...
...Although most of the Arab governments probably wanted to see the troublesome P.L.O. cut down to size militarily in the early phases of the invasion, none desired an outright defeat. In the past month, there has been a grudging resurgence of Arab support, if for no other reason than self-interest: the Palestinian issue has long been a litmus test of Arab nationalism, and no regime that wishes to stay in power can afford to ignore...