Word: self-interest
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Monica’s story is far from an aberration. For all too often the story of cheaters is a story of self-interest above all. Monica says she cheated in order to relieve a certain emotional pain, but many cheaters say they became unfaithful because of a sense of worth and entitlement...
...Supreme Court decision came down awarding Bush the presidency, Hillary Clinton offered a poignant analysis of the choice they both had faced. Gore lost, the New York Senator-elect told friends, because he couldn't separate his personal anguish over Clinton's behavior with Monica Lewinsky from his own self-interest...
Anti-war protesters may contend that the Bush administration is only pushing for regime change out of narrow economic self-interest. But if they are upset with countries whose foreign policy in Iraq is being determined by petroleum investments, the protesters should direct their ire toward Europe and Asia. Hussein has used lucrative oil contracts with Russian, French and Chinese businesses as effective diplomatic weapons in his attempt to stave off a U.S.-led invasion...
...Jerram, chief economist at ING Barings in Tokyo. 'I guess they were only joking.' Only two weeks ago, Takenaka had convinced the world that it could expect a set of proposals with real heft. But he, like so many before him, got mired in the morass of inertia and self-interest that is Japanese politics. Receiving lukewarm support from his boss Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, Takenaka has buckled. At a press briefing last week, Takenaka called his plan 'a good start.' Who says the Japanese have no sense of irony...
...Self-interest becomes a function of identity,” he said...