Word: self-interest
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...Nishtar Hall, a Conference for Peace and National Unity gathered together groups of every creed and allegiance. Rival proposals hummed from cell phone to cell phone, as exiles canvassed their old cronies inside Afghanistan. The Afghan leaders jockeying for power were talking, talking, talking--but plagued by indecision, misjudgment, self-interest, distrust...
...same time, on Capitol Hill and at the Food and Drug Administration, BMS has remembered its self-interest. The company is trying to leverage a provision of drug law designed to help children to secure a three-year extension on its exclusive right to sell a top-grossing diabetes drug, Glucophage - and hiring a world of lobbyists to help make it happen. The tablet form of the drug brings the company $1.4 billion a year...
...because of the near universal denigration of government, politics and politicians. The assumption that the government was some monstrous other--not the expression of our collective will--became axiomatic, unchallengeable (you might even say politically correct). This made it nearly impossible to persuade the citizenry to trade short-term self-interest for the long-term interest of society...
...safer by trying to make you and yours a little bit safer than everyone else. Yet even in the midst of a nationwide flag-waving orgy, this is an argument our government and political leaders don't make. They apparently believe that even dubious appeals to self-interest are more likely to work than valid appeals to concern for the common good...
...with Russia, China, and Europe, we have been making policies in a vacuum,” he said, mentioning that the U.S. currently has a record number of unilateral economic sanctions. “Recently, we’ve been undoing those because we need each other for mutual self-interest...