Word: self-interest
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...keep differences towards tolerable and non-lethal proportions with the faint hope that the goodwill from the former occasionally seeps into the latter. It is foolish, Eban warns, to imagine Soviet designs for global hegemony. It wants to be treated like a superpower but is governed by a self-interest that will induce it to caution in world affairs. What really went wrong with detente in the 1970's was not the unsoundness of the idea but the (mis)calculation by the Soviets that adventurism among nations such as Angola, Ethiopia and Afghanistan outweighed better ties with...
...enormous assault by well-financed military contractors was able to reshape that popular sentiment in time for the election. It would take a few hundred thousand dollars, but the corporations could be sure that they were spending their money on nothing more generous than their own economic self-interest...
While the presidential candidates talk of their plans, the real leadership is coming from the state level: from Governors, from local superintendents, from business people. In a spirit of enlightened self-interest, state officials equate better schools with healthier economies. Some 45 states have put together task forces to consider school reform. In Mississippi, traditionally one of the educationally benighted states, Governor William Winter got the legislature to pass a $69 million bill last December to improve teacher pay and to implement compulsory attendance for the first time since the 1950s. Florida Governor Bob Graham's $228 million school...
Time Inc., the parent company of TIME magazine, has long demonstrated its support for higher education through such activities as direct financial aid and matching grants for employees' gifts to their favorite schools. In part, this is enlightened self-interest: such support helps build the pool of talent on which journalism draws. But over the past seven years the company has also nurtured talent directly. Through Time Inc.'s summer-intern program, headed by Editorial Director Ralph Graves and administered by Personnel's College Relations Manager Katherine Vinton Taylor, a select group of undergraduates spend their vacation...
...same. Hopefully, President Bok and the Fellows of the University will not sit in stubborn silence and watch the opportunity pass by. To quote one group of tenured professors who have thrown their support behind the fasters. "We will forever be ashamed of a Harvard that defines its self-interest so callosly that it is incapable of matching the moral thrust of divestiture fasters...