Word: selfishnesses
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...which he succeeded. The old man also managed to put an end to Phillip's courtship of a "girl I was in love with in Chattanooga (and there has never been another)." As these remembrances and confessions tumble out, a question emerges: Who is more awful, the domineering, selfish father or his aggrieved and equally solipsistic...
...desire to safeguard the independence of a network news operation. Says CBS Board Member Harold Brown: "Larry Tisch is a public-spirited citizen who is also a very shrewd businessman. He does have the public interest at heart. He regards the network as something to be protected from selfish or disruptive or repressive influences...
...Cantabs are quickly learning how to combat Harvard's selfish manipulation of the housing market. In the November, 1985 municipal elections, 50 percent of Cambridge's voters told Harvard Real Estate, Inc. (HRE) to stop selling rent-controlled buildings to professors on a priority basis. Because of owner-occupancy rules, Harvard's house sales only serve to decontrol apartments reserved for low-income tenants...
...there is one thing to fault in Bok's thoughtful book, it is the underlying implication that most of the good being done in American higher education is being done by university administrators, who need to overcome the retarding influence of a preoccupied, if not selfish, faculty...
...ought to prosecute people whose motives for invading other nations are selfish or paranoid in the extreme--like the Surinam invasion party, which hoped to abscond with the contents of the national bank, or the neurotic commander in Doctor Strangelove who is convinced he is surrounded by Communist plots...