Word: self-interest
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...school, laments this sorry state of affairs. These schools have served our country by educating the privileged few, he argues, who by virtue of their wealth and social standing will wield a disproportionate amount of power in national affairs. These fortunate folk usually suffer from an excess of self-interest; Boarding schools strive to beat it out of them through strenuous athletics and a rigorously planned schedule. Or at least they used...
...This bill will be discussed in the next few weeks. Of course, even if this second bill does pass the council, Lewis and the rest of the administration will probably ignore it (as they do with most student suggestions the administration does not see to be in its own self-interest). Nonetheless, a council decision is the first step in the right decision, and now is the time to do something if students want to have a voice on our disciplinary committee. If we wait, the Faculty will once again quietly sweep the issue under the rug, as it seems...
...courted assiduously. Dole listened to his advice and deferred to him in meetings. "The only term to describe how we acted toward Newt" in those crucial preprimary months in 1995, says Reed, "is butt kissing." That alone may have been enough, but there was a good deal of self-interest involved too. Gingrich knew that supporting Dole could preclude a younger pretender from emerging, thus preserving the Speaker's post-'96 options if Dole lost. And if Dole won, Gingrich could function as the new Administration's chief policymaker, or so he reasoned. As Gingrich told Time in the fall...
...increasingly long list of words debased. Of course, debasement of language is just symptomatic of an even greater problem. Deterioration of language is synonymous with the degradation of sensibilities as well. For decades, a deterioration has taken place in compassion, in caring for others in the name of self-interest; look at downsizing, an increase in broken families, a move to the safe suburbs from dangerous cities, the rich getting richer, the poor getting poorer. So why should a working-class, blue-collar family support a system in which others can live off the government while they struggle to survive...
...game largely played by former Communists. No matter whether Yeltsin or Zyuganov triumphs in the presidential race, few Russians believe they will live anytime soon in a society where the rule of law prevails and where the leaders take the demands of the electorate as seriously as their own self-interest. Such crippling pessimism is understandable, given centuries of oppressive rule by the Kremlin...