Word: self-interest
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...Senate's medieval answer to these issues will prove at least as damaging to this end as the Clinton-proposed spending cuts it intends to reverse. Far from enshrining a responsible program of U.S.-led multilateral leadership in global security, it demonstrates an ill-timed lapse into feudal self-interest. Instead of upgrading the rapid-deployment and flexibility potentials of our military task-forces in dealing with local and regional emergencies more efficiently--whether in Haiti or the South China Sea--the new bill announces our increasing ideological immobility...
...evidence that Gingrich is no pure ideologue and Dole is no mere expediter. A political truism holds that it is one thing to campaign and another to govern; now that Newt has to win floor votes and Dole has to woo voters, each is exactly as ideological as self-interest dictates...
...which called some agents of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms "jack-booted thugs."("Those comments were referring to those specific cases where lives were lost or there was damage because of the ATF," he says). On abortion, Campbell says the debate is between those who put "self-interest" first versus those who believe in moral principles...
...learned to cloak self-interest in moralargument and utilize rigidity to keep ambivalenceat bay," said Levine, who served as a navymidshipman in the Gulf of Tonkin...
...University that otherwise grants its students a great deal of freedom. The residents of this community thoroughly detest the new arrangement, in part because they realize the impossibility of the desired outcome. By randomizing the houses in such a hostile environment, Dean Jewett has dismissed undergraduate protest as immature self-interest. Randomization, the Great Leap Forward for the social engineers here, should be revoked...