Word: self
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...overall costs is to pay lower wages. Repealing the law would create larger profits for contractors but cut the earnings of their employees. It is the public works equivalent to cutting the minimum wage requirement, a return to days when labor had no government protection against abuse from self-interested employers...
Animals have the right to be free of extreme cruelty, and that right is currently protected by law. Farmers, of all people, respect these rights, both out of economic self-interest and a familiarity gained from long association. Animal rights advocates see certain practices as intrinsically wrong, and justify their beliefs with arguments no more (or less) valid than those of religious devotees who eschew the killing of certain creatures, but which are wholly subjective. These activists would like, through Question 3, to become the ethical decision makers for all of us. With the power of government and lawsuit behind...
...visited upon the Palestinian people as they try to end Israeli occupation. One and a half million have been protesting day after day for almost a year, sacrificing their lives by the hundreds and enduring beatings and torture by the thousands. They ask only for the same right of self-determination desired by all people...
THORNTON Wilder's high-school-theater chestnut about the bygone era of small-town America finds itself on the Harvard stage best suited to its unique, self-conscious theatricality...
...Those who have voted for Dukakis have voted for a self-proclaimed liberal," said David R. Ackley '91, co-chair of Harvard Students for Bush-Quayle. "They have put forth Harvard as a bastion of liberalism...