Word: selfish
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...Republicans are right that a sick or newborn child would be better off with a full-time caregiver. But they seem to think that in families in which no one fills this role, selfish female ambition alone is to blame. In this context, the family-leave veto comes off as a punishment for rejecting what Marilyn Quayle thinks is women's "essential nature": child-rearing. If women don't want to raise their kids his way, Bush seems to be saying, businesses shouldn't be asked to make their lives easier...
Robert Knepper successfully captures the seedy, distrusful and selfish chum that is Joey. Unfortunately, his vocal delivery of Joey's songs was at times disappointing...
...welfare with a family of four to adequately provide for her group, but penalizing her should she increase the size of the initial family. This is not reproductive Stalinism--it is simply a method by which we ensure that fewer children are born into the mire of poverty by selfish mothers...
...foreign policy, the Gulf war, Bush's alleged triumph, accomplished far less than was claimed: Saddam's still there and still making us look like fools. And I for one would have respected Bush more if he had admitted that we were in it for our own "selfish" national interests like oil. His pretense that our motives were altruistic has now caused the world to look to us for help in areas like Bosnia and Somalia where we have no strategic interest and cannot afford to be bogged down. The idea that government should function as protector...
Harrison depicts the former Olympic pixie as an unhappy, selfish and dishonest woman: "Her voice is flat and uninflected; it lacks the ardency of truth...Reading what she has said over the years is like walking through halls of mirrors; she issues denials and counterdenials, she writes and rewrites the script, editing all the time, contradicting her contradictions...