Word: self-interest
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Foley is also betting that self-interest will win out in the end. "The majority of people in my district think the job of a member of Congress is to constructively support local education, local transportation and law enforcement," he told TIME. The Speaker announced a blizzard of new federal projects for Spokane, including doubling the size of the survival-training school at Fairchild Air Force Base -- a facility, Foley added, that he had helped save from closure. He also noted that Spokane, a city where violent crime already runs well below the national average, will get more new cops...
...extolling the virtues of free markets and heaping scorn on the evils of clumsy, intrusive Big Government. He takes the position that despite the whining of enviros, people throughout the world have never been better off and that doomsayers who exaggerate the threat of ecological collapse are motivated by self-interest and a socialist agenda. In essence, he is offering the Wall Street Journal editorial page with a laugh track...
Although Human Resources' present policy of lump sum payments is obviously the easiest and fastest way to close the books on an older staff member who is no longer needed or wanted, in my judgment it is in Harvard's unlighted self-interest to move to a policy that permits multi-year payments and doubles the benefit to the employee, at no added cost to Harvard, except the administrative expense involved...
...There was a belief in change and protests thatweren't just out of self-interest but rather aconcept of unity of purpose that is much moredistant today than it was back then," Carden says...
...contend with such a thesis about their own modernity. If they are more secure than they have ever been, in America and (for different reasons) in Israel, it is because they repudiated that thesis, not without bitter internecine battle, and because they made themselves ready in their own self-interest for the costs of change...