Word: altruism
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...Charlie Hustler, Write Doesn't Make Right - Gary Peterson writes: "There is no altruism at work here. Rose isn't doing the right thing. He's doing the expedient thing. He's coming clean for a price. And he's doing it at the expense of the former players whose election to the Hall of Fame will be announced on Tuesday...
...Widener’s altruism, however, came with a few peculiar conditions, including a provision permitting her “to do grading and landscape work” on the grounds of the new library...
...than we abandon them with our actions. Realistically, I’m not asking anyone to pawn their iPods tomorrow to help fund Head Start (which, alas, thanks to Dubya, is well on its way to extinction). Every leftist needs to find his own balance between self-gratification and altruism, but generally, the world needs more of the latter and less of the former...
Insisting that he was “just a simple monk and a human being, no more, no less,” and dressed in red and saffron robes, the spiritual leader of Tibet used his 100-minute talk to emphasize the significance of compassion and altruism in creating happy, healthy lives...
...Economists think of altruism as a valuable and rare good that should be conserved and saved for family, friends and social problems that markets cannot solve,” he said...