Word: self-interest
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...completing both symbolically and materially the move to the West." Now the aspirant countries are more skeptical. Their politicians still want in, but are trying to get better terms. This is not ingratitude, or irrationality, but maturity. Ardor has gone; a thoroughly modern - and Western - mix of self-interest, conflicting opinions and, yes, apathy has replaced it. Maybe that's a sign that this historic union will work after all: the newcomers will fit right into the club...
...about entire ecosystems. The pig-tailed bandicoot had no mourners. But the ecosystem in the entire Australian outback is the concern of millions of people. It is in our best interest to preserve large swaths of wilderness and thereby save as many species as possible. It plays to human self-interest because a diversity of species makes land and sea more productive in the long-term. Many conservation groups have been involved in drives to buy up tracts of wilderness to preserve them from rapacious corporations. Such efforts (which Wilson endorses) are the best hope we have for saving many...
...violence. While the injustices and egregious human rights records of the Taliban or current Iraqi regimes neither could nor should be defended, they are matched by a history of injustice and oppression in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere perpetrated by those friendly to the U.S., whose concern with its supposed self-interest and its political ends has eclipsed its concern for the value of human lives and fueled much of the anger against it. Greater commitment to breaking the cycle of poverty and violence in the past might have prevented today’s stark choices from ever arising...
Ironically, corporate self-interest may become a force for environmental protection. "This is not philanthropy," says Bjorn Stigson, president of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, with 160 corporate members in 30 countries. "Companies that don't get it will lose their competitiveness...
...European mainland, has a more subtle dimension. Despite myriad objections to much of U.S. foreign po licy, many government officials and media pundits nonetheless insist on developing a “special relationship” with the U.S. They reason that our two nations have more shared self-interest than exists with other countries, and they conclude that we should co nsult with each another on foreign policy issues before we turn to the wider international community. British Prime Minister Tony Blair uses this doctrine to justify support for a U.S. invasion of Iraq and for Britain?...