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...reason for her election is that Kaufman is a singularly unselfish player in a sometimes selfish sport...
...Premier complained of rises in prices, wages and credit and decried "selfish departmentalism," meaning corruption and profiteering by local officials and managers, who have greater powers today than in the old days of Soviet-style central planning. Citing Deng's recent exhortation for "lofty ideals and moral integrity," Zhao announced a decision to reimpose some bureaucratic controls aimed at increasing government oversight of financial operations. The move was seen as an attempt to consolidate the reform program, rather than retreat from...
...sacrificing their programming and policy orientation as they squirm to keep their stations in the black. And the federal officials who manage public broadcasting's central inances should be wary of dangers to PBS's credibility as an impartial and pluralistic network. Meanwhile, however, on a somewhat selfish level. I'm glad we were able to watch Game 101 in the Quincy JGR. As Iselin, the Harvard alumnus who personally attended both the Brown and Columbia games, said, Crimson football "plays better on TV than in person" anyway...
...analyzing her results, Landers gave her usual cross between philosophy and sermon. "This says something very unflattering about men in this country," she said. "It says men are selfish. They want theirs." Yet she was quick to distribute the blame. "Some women need the message: loosen up, be sexier." Above all, Landers cited the so-called sexual revolution as the root of many of the problems. "Women are anxious," she said. "They're reading in Cosmopolitan that if they don't have five orgasms a night they're undersexed or freaks...
...legitimate disagreement on the basic moral objective" of the Catholic Bishops letter, the pastoral reads, although the matter of how to protect the human dignity and economic rights of all may be disputed. For like a single voice crying out in the wilderness of this country's selfish individualism, the Catholic Bishops Conference has articulated the needs of an estimated 9 million people who slipped below the poverty level between 1979 and 1983. They have called for greater social cooperation and justice, and in doing so, have rekindled the flame of biblical teaching--to feed the hungry, shelter the homeless...