Word: self-interest
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...culture ill prepares us for retirement--and the abrupt end of daily interaction with people who share a collective enterprise with us--but there are ways to continue meaningful communal activity. "The media's appeal to the self-interest of older people by saying 'Now's the time to play golf, have good sex, go on a cruise' is demeaning," says Msgr. Charles Fahey, professor of aging studies at Fordham University in New York City. "Friendships occur within the context of doing significant things, pursuing visions and dreams...
Economic Inequality and Corporate Interest. The filthy rich, a small but influential percentage of Bush supporters, will vote overwhelmingly on account of their self-interest. George W.'s unabashed disregard for rising economic inequality and unthinking addiction to "free markets" that are anything but free for the working poor deliver moneyed interests an irresistible combination of tax cuts and rollbacks of government regulations. Smaller government means a smaller Environmental Protection Agency, a smaller Food and Drug Administration, a smaller Department of Transportation, and a smaller antitrust division of the Department of Justice. Think Firestone tires, Houston smog and Standard...
...ability to rise above a common human tendency toward self-righteousness and self-interest helped him survive a four-decade long struggle for peace and freedom under authoritarian rule. Kim's outspoken crusades against the government brought him years of torture, imprisonment and multiple attempts on his life...
...ethnic hatred have overwhelmed political disagreement. Each vicious act has inspired vicious reprisal, locking the combatants in a circle in which neither is ready or willing to desist first. In the process, both have inflicted wounds that cut to the core of their dilemma: how to coexist. Logic, even self-interest, has been sacrificed to emotions run out of control...
...defense, the associations claim that letting banks work with Amex and Discover would undermine a legitimate advantage--like forcing McDonald's to sell Burger King's fries. They say many banks have already pledged to commit more than 80% of their card business to one brand, thereby reducing their self-interest in the other and increasing competition. The defendants also wonder why Justice's proposal contradicts its expert witness, who testified that banks dedicated to one brand should be allowed to issue a small percentage of the other's cards...