Word: self-interest
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...human rights record actually deteriorated over the six years since the President unlinked trade issues from human rights may reinforce skepticism. In the end, though, China's human rights record may not be labor's primary concern - like their corporate employers, trade union members are acting on perceived self-interest: Where the former see China's massive untapped markets as an opportunity, the latter fear the threat posed by its vast army of cheap labor. Still, with Gore having sewn up the Democratic nomination, he's expected to step in behind the administration line - and that may put pressure...
...wish for you the discovery that while the pleasures and vanities of youth prove ephemeral, something better can endure until our last moment on earth. And that is the love we give and the honor we earn when we sacrifice with others for a cause greater than our self-interest...
...recent election commission debacle and the ill-fated motion to remove its vice president, the Undergraduate Council seems to have abandoned democracy in favor of Orwellian social conformity. Economics concentrators beware: the words "rational choice theory" will have to be said in a hushed whisper and talk of self-interest will become taboo. And while there are no five-year plans yet, there is a five-day one: Spirit Week...
...Economic self-interest - and a good deal of prodding from a White House worried about spoiling Democratic election prospects in the fall - looks likely to impel OPEC to finally curtail spiraling oil prices. Fuel costs began to skyrocket last March when the group implemented a 7.5 percent cut in crude oil production that was also respected by nonmember oil-producing nations. The Clinton administration has been hands-off until now, saying it'd let the market self-adjust, but prices have just hit a nine-year high - with American emergency crude oil stores at a 25-year...
Gandhi rejects the Adam Smith notion of human nature as motivated by self-interest and brute needs and returns us to our spiritual dimension with its impulses for nonviolence, justice and equality...