Word: self-interest
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...letters, addresses, state and war papers, have been arranged chronologically by Author Osborn, and connected by concise, impartial passages to facilitate transition from one document to the next. The whole effect is admirable, and the book has at least one advantage over an autobiography in that the element of self-interest, so often so obvious, is pleasantly lacking...
Belgium is a sturdy old gentleman of mixed Franco-Teuton stock who has hundreds of highly industrialized factories, and many more intensively cultivated farms. His foreign policy is international, easy to state, based squarely on self-interest, hard to attain. It is Peace Throughout Europe?for Belgium is the unhappy cockpit in which European wars are fought...
Since no simpleton could fail to see that all these extraordinary contentions proceeded from the self-interest or fear which advanced them, the adjournment of the Committee, in midweek, without deciding the nature of even "peacetime armaments" came as no surprise...
...result may by chance be as just. But the game is different. And throughout such political organization as the country possesses, there is a constant aversion among hardened campaigners to anything which could be called a system. The city machine, falsely so-called, is bound only by ties of self-interest to the party throughout the state; while a national party contains manifold units of unequal cohesion. The men who run politics take a fancy to leaving the door wide open for rebellion, usurpation, and insubordination. They work, as Mrs. Blair remarks not by program but by prowess. They have...
...that Omaha has captured its sniping slayer, the question remains what to do with him. Since the authorities have discouraged the simple process of lynching, the law will in all probability take its course. A healthy self-interest requires that the sniper who killed for fun be made powerless to work harm on his fellows...