Word: self-interest
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...China really intends to exert pressure on Pyongyang, Dandong will be the place where the hammer will drop. But there's reason to doubt China's readiness to take further steps toward squeezing North Korea. One reason is self-interest. Trade with the North is vital to border cities like Dandong, which has registered double-digit growth in recent years, according to local government statistics. Much of that is due to its trade with North Korea, which has more than quadrupled since 1999. Others have benefited from doing business with the North: energy and fuels constitute the bulk of China...
...levels of participation; how can we in good conscience send a college graduate out into the world who has little or no operating knowledge of the government which will regulate the rest of his or her life? You might assume I am operating from a position of self-interest here, and perhaps there is some of that; however, I would like to believe that my position is based on a far loftier idea about transmission of democratic values and ideas at a time in young adults’ lives when they are open to considering the philosophical underpinnings of their...
...fallen back into the false comfort of what has been aptly dubbed “the Harvard bubble.” It’s a place where everything of importance is contained within ivy walls, and summed up in the Ec 10 textbook’s definition of self-interest...
...Cold War, there was a lot of disagreement within the company about whether it might alienate not just customers or retailers, but people within the company. Ultimately it was well received, because people liked the idea that a business was taking a stand on issues outside of its own self-interest...
...cause-related marketing out there, which I'm not a big fan of. Companies will hook up with a politically correct charity for a while, but never take a stand on a real political issue. They may be active politically, but it's all in their own economic self-interest and usually covert. To my knowledge, there's never been another company in the U.S. of significant size that's taken a stand against nuclear weapons. We're the first - and we hope we're not the last...