Word: self-interest
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...Buying and selling according to your self-interest is, of course, the fundamental idea behind investing in the markets. It is also now the fundamental hope behind Bush's $300 billion proposal to eliminate the tax on corporate dividends paid to shareholders. Administration officials have helpfully volunteered that they expect the elimination of the dividend tax to spark a sustained stock market rally, which in turn will convince Americans that good times have returned, causing them to spend more money and thus give a boost to the economy. And that, they hope, will ensure that this President Bush will escape...
...World Trade Organization this year, China has become more aggressive about making excuses to keep its markets closed to international competition. The recent concern with the health effects of genetically-modified food—in a country that once enthusiastically embraced such technology—points to economic self-interest over any real health concerns...
...continuing to produce deadly weapons with our proverbial name on them—it does not take much thinking to realize that a forced defection is hardly a defection at all. Expecting those who have not left Hussein of their own accord—whose own shifted sympathies or self-interest play no part in coming here—to give us helpful information is something like writing “spaceship” on an Oldsmobile and waiting for lift...
...Administration is using self-interest as an argument with the Saudis. Counterterrorism investigators have tracked members of active al-Qaeda cells in Yemen who have slipped across the border to set up operations in Saudi Arabia. U.S. intelligence officials told TIME that the CIA is showing the Saudis evidence that al-Qaeda is planning attacks inside the kingdom. High on the list of potential targets are petroleum facilities and oil-pumping stations that, if struck, would disrupt Saudi oil output; the CIA thinks al-Qaeda may also target housing compounds and shopping malls frequented by Westerners. --Reported by Perry Bacon...
...understand that, it explains a lot of why men act the way they do and women act the way they do,” Brandt says. “Of course, not every guy is out there catting around and not every woman is in it for her own self-interest. But I think about my own life, and I think we can all think about our lives in this sense, and some elements of the argument seem to apply. In my case, so many misunderstood one-night stands can be explained in these terms...