Word: self-interest
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...addition to such altruistic motives as helping Third World development and atoning for its World War II guilt, Japan's almsgiving is prompted by enlightened self-interest. "If you want to see which countries are most important politically to Japan, just look down the list at how much aid they spend in each one," says Nathaniel Thayer, an expert in Asian studies at Johns Hopkins University. About two-thirds of Tokyo's assistance goes to Asia, a proportion that reflects its stake in the region as both a market for Japanese products and a source of cheap labor...
While his amendment is fanciful, his reasoning is not. USX complains about corporate raiders "serving only their self-interest at the expense of...the community." One might ask, then, what exactly motivated USX--if not self-interest at the expense of the community--to ruin hundreds of families in Gary, West Virginia, by suddenly laying off every single worker...
...easily lose to the candidate who can organize the best mixers and loosen up hall passes. A former Senate aide points to Byrd's upset victory over the charismatic but inattentive Edward Kennedy for Democratic whip in 1971. Democrats talk national leadership, says the onetime aide, but they vote self-interest. "They want someone to manage their lives, make them look good," he says, "especially the ones with complicated social lives or a drinking problem...
...featured in The Atlantic and publicized in two-page advertisements in several major newspapers. The ads stated: "We have joined together to urge our fellow Americans and this nation's leaders to rise above politics as usual to set aside differences--of party, region, ideology, and even immediate self-interest--in order to resolve our worsening economic problems before its too late." Peterson asserts, quite correctly, that the nation has been living beyond its means: spending and consuming too much, collecting and producing too little, and borrowing the difference...
...fear of being knifed in the face. They must be pried a-loose." The week Jackson said this, the Israeli journalist Wolf Blitzer wrote a long article in the Jerusalem Post, concluding, "Israel and its friends in the American Jewish community clearly have an important self-interest in establishing as decent a relationship with him as possible...