Word: selfishness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...from home has helped Cao find a new family in her teammates, a welcome experience after being a singles player all her life.“For all junior tennis players it’s a very individual sport—it’s a very selfish sport. You just want yourself to win and you don’t care about any other,” Cao said. “But here in college it’s more of a team sport. We want the others on the team to do just as well...
...message is a little mixed. Chores sound like character-building fun for men but like soul-deadening drudgery for women. Likewise, mothers are allowed to rhapsodize about their jobs, but hard-charging fathers who enjoy working round the clock are just selfish...
...think of 25 reasons for the economic mess we are in, but none of them relate to specific people. The culture into which we have evolved includes no moral compass and is based on greed; instant gratification; selfish disregard for others, present and future; an expectation that the government will handle all our needs--you get the idea. We can all take blame. Joe Gordon, DALLAS...
...Luckily for us, the social fashions shifted just in time. The grandees of the selfish class have been vilified and discredited. So, as selfishness collapses as a viable expression of young ambition, service has stepped in as a replacement. This is by no means a bad thing: the efforts of even a few service-minded young people will go a long way in repairing the acidic mistrust that has corroded the commonwealth...
...think that it has been. I never really understood or had a full appreciation of it until I earned this Bassmaster Classic spot. I was thinking about it from a selfish perspective, where it was all about me. And suddenly I was introduced to all these women who have been fishing for 40-odd years, who have been dreaming of this day when women would compete in the Bassmaster Classic. They're crying because this is a historical moment. I've always been into fishing, and always been allowed to fish, and when I came here...