Word: selfishness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Keegan: "We were walking down the street together. People who once would come up and hug Ira crossed the street and averted their eyes...He looked at me, sad, and said, 'I'm not going to be able to be Ira Einhorn now.' And I realized he was a selfish, arrogant bastard...
...Crimson reader, I applaud the new free subscription policy for a very selfish reason: I no longer have to pay for The Crimson. As the Reader Representative, I think it's a great way to increase readership. A newspaper should be accessible to as many people as possible. People who would never have subscribed to The Crimson are now reading it merely because it is left outside their door. If they see something in the paper they like or don't like, or something that makes them angry, and it incites them to write a letter to the editors...
...third of his day "thinking... about... where the world is going"! This is behavior we normally attribute to poets and philosophers, people we pretend to take seriously but prefer to confine to the ivory towers of a university, where their radical social ideas will pose no threat to our selfish individualism. JENNIFER FISHER BRYANT Glenmoore...
...often daydreamed about what I would do if I had millions of dollars, and oddly enough, my fantasy comes close to George Soros' reality. I'm as selfish as the next person, but after mentally spending 4 million or 5 million dollars on yachts and jewels, my imagination lags. So my dreams would then focus on all the good I would do. I say, "Good on you, George." I don't have to agree with every project of yours to congratulate you on returning, in some measure, what you have taken from society. SHERRI L. DILLON Raleigh...
...nationalized enterprises didn't work. "Communal property was nobody's property," he says. "So nobody worked. The problem was motivation. None of these fellows had a stake." He opens his eyes wide to make sure his message has been received. "You have to base your production strategy on the selfish individual, not the altruistic minority." He compared how well his family had looked after their cows to Tanzanian mismanagement of state property...