Word: self-interest
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...Real Anita Hill, claims the troopers came forward out of a public-spirited concern that Clinton's behavior, if he continued it as President, could endanger national security by making him vulnerable to blackmailers. His sources were also motivated, he admits, by ''an element of score settling and self-interest.'' Patterson claims Clinton promised him a job transfer but never delivered. ''We lied for him and helped him cheat on his wife, and he treated us like dogs,'' he complained in the story. The Spectator article gained some credibility by forcing the hand of the Los Angeles Times, which went...
Even Central bankers charged with steering the global economy are permitted their pastimes. Greenspan loves to roam well beyond the facts for intellectual stimulation. He was deeply influenced by Rand's classic Atlas Shrugged, which helped shape his view that individuals acting in self-interest make for fair and honest markets. Although Bernanke wrote an unpublished novel in his younger days, his reading list swings to the pragmatic. He spent a recent vacation with a book about astronomy and has read volumes about Milton Friedman, whom he regards as the 20th century's greatest economist for his arguments...
...levees before Katrina struck will now cost us untold billions. Not resolving the nation's issues of race and class has and will cost us so much more." America, listen to those words or reap the consequences. If the cries of human suffering don't move us, perhaps enlightened self-interest and the bottom line will. Whatever the motivation, we must act now. Nicole Daines Gibeaut Fallbrook, California...
...levees before Katrina struck will now cost us untold billions. Not resolving the nation's issues of race and class has and will cost us so much more." America, listen to those words or reap the consequences. If the cries of human suffering don't move us, perhaps enlightened self-interest and the bottom line will. Whatever the motivation, we must act now. Nicole Daines Gibeaut Fallbrook, California...
...fixing the city's levees before Katrina struck will now cost us untold billions. Not resolving the nation's issues of race and class has and will cost us so much more." America, listen to those words. If the cries of human suffering don't move us, perhaps enlightened self-interest will. Whatever the motivation, we must...