Word: self-interest
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...state of the economy is bearing heavily in college students' minds. Demanding steps to address the nation's recession-plagued social and economic woes through political activism fits into the realm of not just seeking help for yourself but for others as well. It's that whole enlightened self-interest thing...
...Western world grown accustomed to drawing facile distinctions between villains and heroes as it witnessed one political convolution after another, Algeria's crisis posed a jarring dilemma: Which takes precedence -- democratic principles or geopolitical self-interest? The U.S. initially appeared to support the annulment of the election by contending that the generals, whose intervention had the support of a handful of civilian leaders, acted constitutionally when they appointed a council to fill the vacant presidency. In fact, the 1989 Algerian constitution makes no such provision. A day later, officials declared that Washington would not stake out a position...
...Japanese are rigid conformists; Americans practice individualism up to--and sometimes over--the brink of selfishness. Americans believe that if they make a better or cheaper product, other people will always buy it, because fairness equates with economic self-interest. The Japanese believe it is almost unpatriotic to buy a foreign product when that might hurt their own farms or factories...
...those who have, America is the greatest place to be ill, and for those who don't, it is the worst. Usually, that's the end of the story, and we accept the triump of self-interest improperly understood. But this time, we actually have a chance to do something, and it could be a triumph of politics...
Even if such an alliance were formed, of course, it might be prevented from coming to power. Sheer self-interest may well push the republics, or at least most of the bigger ones, into an alliance that, combined with massive and timely Western aid, would stop the economic disintegration. And Russians have what German democrats in the Weimar period woefully lacked: forceful, popular leaders like Yeltsin -- who on the whole has been more democrat than autocrat -- St. Petersburg Mayor Anatoli Sobchak and Moscow Mayor Gavril Popov. Authoritarians as yet have no leader with any comparable clout. But a lawyer named...