Word: self-interest
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...current circumstances make Clinton the rare politician who can argue for reform out of self-interest. Just last week voters were reminded again just how brazenly his White House has mixed fund raising with policymaking: documents released by the Administration on Friday show that the party organized a coffee at the White House that brought together its own top fund raisers with banking CEOS and a senior banking regulator, Eugene Ludwig, the Comptroller of the Currency. With this kind of revelation and the Senate's upcoming hearings into illegal contributions to his party, it is no wonder that Clinton...
First, then, the tax code should be reinterpreted--and the President should urge Congress to do so. Might he? "I'm not a fan of the Big Bang school of policymaking," says Raines, whose view is shared by Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin. "I'm for economic self-interest working its will." There's nothing wrong with that, especially in a free-market system. But sometimes self-interest needs a push...
...Harvard milieu' may just not sustain an honor code on any terms. The self-reliance and self-interest of the Harvard student might smother an honor code before it had a chance to grow and thrive...
...overall reason that the staff supports unions is that it identifies their self-interest with its own. This is a mistaken and hypocritical calculation, for if the unions are, by the staff's minds, allowed to demand increased wages or better conditions at the expense of students, why should not students favor lower or stagnant wages at the expense of unions...
...most kids mature as they get older. Experience often proves that self-interest is counter-productive. Even the snootiest suburban teenagers eventually get the hint and start paying attention to others around them. Of course, most adolescents are not that bad to begin with. They may be consumers, but this evil seems fairly tame in an age of gang violence and street crime. Besides, according to all of our recently disappointed supply siders, it is the money of kids like these that keeps our economy going...