Word: self-interest
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...Enlightened self-interest will determine Syria's actions...
...participation. Likewise, we commend the UC members for shirking selfishness by approving the “2x2” plan. The restructuring eliminates 16 spots on the UC and undoubtedly places many members in jeopardy of losing their positions next year. If two more members had voted out of self-interest, then the vote would have failed, and the student body would have been left with a slightly more bloated UC. But instead of circling the wagons to protect its own, as it easily could have done, the UC fulfilled its duties of serving the student body over...
...whom were deeply disillusioned by World War I and gave the school a pacifist streak that seems hopelessly naive in retrospect. Beard, best known as co-author with his wife, Mary, of An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution, which argued that the founders were operating more out of monetary self-interest than democratic ideals, went on to be a vocal critic of Franklin Roosevelt's efforts to help the Allies during World...
...since 1842.In a 1985 Harvard study commissioned by then-Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence, author Brian Melendez ’86 cited the “Harvard milieu” as one of the barriers to the creation of a code.“The self-reliance and self-interest of the Harvard student might smother an honor code before it had a chance to grow and thrive,” Melendez wrote.Paula F. Popescu ’07, a transfer student from Wellesley College, agreed with this assessment.“My opinion is that it might...
...sanctioned public activities was almost mandatory; non-participation could lead to ostracism while participation often had clear benefits. With this cultural background, this vestigial Soviet mindset, contemporary Russians often do not understand how public activity can be independent of the government’s control and not motivated by self-interest. Therefore many people easily believe the fairy-tales told by state officials, political analysts, and the mass media of NGO’s alleged “hidden” motives or their espionage goals. From the Soviet-era point of view, NGO’s activities look suspicious.Even...