Word: selfishness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cooperate, the Federal Reserve will have to crack down so hard on money supply, and push interest rates so high, that there really will be a recession. Characteristically, he put it to Taber in tones of promise rather than threat: "The Fed fits into this model in a rather selfish way. Any economic strategy that works toward lessening inflation will inevitably lessen the pressure on the central bank," and allow it to put out enough money to promote his cherished 4% growth rate...
...voters of California have spoken all right, but "tax revolt" is a little too noble-sounding for this irresponsible initiative. Given the opportunity, "the will of the people" would probably be to eliminate all taxes. Let's not make heroes out of selfish, ignorant voters...
...shame just about step forth from his face and confess. The other girls run up to Violet's room and find her collapsed and apparently unconscious on the bed--brutalized, sodomized, what can it be? We wait. But ha, ha, fooled you"! Violet pops up and scolds them selfish for not coming to her earlier. Shields' is a face that when it communicates anything says "me, me, me." But most of the time it doesn't even say that much; it rests apparently self-satisfied and oblivious to the implications of her environment. Disappointingly, this lack of depth also undermines...
...teenage comes to mind.) Instead, Violet's is a face not to lurk in corners but to skip through halls. Her coping mechanism, if it can be called that, is a sort of bitchiness. But it is a bitchiness that is not so much protective as just plain infantile--selfish and self-indulgent...
...Raymond Aron: "In most countries, socialism carries the connotation that whatever is good is socialist, whatever is bad originates in capitalism." Adds Nobel-Prizewinning Economist Milton Friedman: "[For many], socialism implies egalitarianism and that people are living for society, while capitalism has been given the connotation of materialism, 'greedy,' 'selfish,' 'self-serving...