Word: self-interest
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...create a gerontocracy of such unity and might that it will either utterly dominate the American political map or provoke all-out generational warfare. In a nation in which only 66 million vote in off-year congressional elections, a bloc of some 80 million people motivated by their desperate self-interest will become dauntingly powerful...
Robinson knows we'll see chimps back in orbit before we see a federal mandate for vacation time. But he hopes a debate on the bottom-line realities of burnout will inspire a rash of enlightened self-interest among employers. So before you see how far you can get this summer on your short vacation leash, take a trip to Escapemag.com and sign a petition. Provence, Tuscany, the Greek isles--your employer owes you nothing less. Workers of the world, unite...
Cooke says that before proposals are granted student group status, the College administration is usually able to weed out students who are motivated purely by self-interest...
...wants. And the reason Assad had sued for peace in the first place is that the collapse of the Soviet Union has seen Syria?s military capability steadily declining, while remaining on the sidelines of Washington's Mideast peace game has left its economy isolated and stagnant. Long-term self-interest dictates that Syria must, eventually, make peace with Israel...
...motivated as much by enlightened self-interest as by altruism, but the decision by five pharmaceutical giants to slash the price of AIDS drugs in Africa has the potential to be an important milestone in the battle against the killer disease. Bristol Myers Squibb, Glaxo Wellcome PLC, Merck and Co., Boehringer Ingelheim GmbH and Roche Holding AG are set Thursday to announce a program negotiated with the United Nations to cut the price of AIDS drugs by as much as 90 percent on a continent where more than 23 million people are infected with HIV. The business context for that...