Word: self-interest
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Such comments have a tinge of self-interest: the British, West German and Japanese governments have all signed up to participate in Star Wars research. But European leaders like West Germany's Helmut Kohl have other reasons to be glad that the final package was rejected. Kohl and his advisers were surprised by the sweeping nature of the proposals that, almost at a stroke, would have changed the military and nuclear balance of Western Europe. In private, they were frankly relieved that they still had time to look at the fine print of the offers rather than waking...
...omerta (silence) and provide evidence against their former partners. Racket victims are less fearful than before of testifying. Nationwide, says Giuliani, "we've got more than 100 people who have testified against Mafia guys." To be sure, many witnesses are criminals facing long sentences; they have a strong self-interest in currying favor with prosecutors...
...could fall into the hands of terrorists and be used for shooting down airliners. But at that point the President began to lobby hard to turn the vote around. During a White House breakfast for 60 Senators last week, he declared that the sale was a matter of U.S. self-interest, adding "We must retain the trust of the moderate Arab nations...
...seeming authoritarian. On the local level, for example, the new government has already removed 71 of the 74 governors and 52 of the 60 city mayors who belong to Marcos' party. But in discharging them so peremptorily, the President has sparked complaints that she is indulging a Marcos-like self-interest. "I thought she was going to be a nonpartisan President," grumbles Richard Gordon, the dynamic young mayor of Olangapo, who was replaced by an Aquino appointee. "But it's still personality politics that prevails here...
...magazine, thanks in part to news coverage generated by The Crimson's dispute and by prominent coverage on page one of this newspaper, is having "free speech" a-plenty. The argument is relevant to those who voted not to publish the advertisement, because they failed to see their own self-interest. Put simply, they did not have enough faith in our community to believe that female students would be as repulsed by the concept of posing nude for Playboy (and by the magazine itself) as women at The Crimson were...