Word: selfishnesses
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...style baseball under a California sun. Nurtured on the Dodger farm system to live by simple virtues, they respect their owner, love their manager and hit home runs. The Yankees reflect the clamor and chaos of New York City. High-powered and high-salaried, they are as disputatious, selfish and disdainful of each other as they are talented-a galaxy of stars, singularly burning with a hard, cold light. The following stories probe beyond the line scores into the contrasting characters of the two teams. The story on the fractious Yankees was reported and written by Senior Correspondent Robert Ajemian...
...there was a rumor that the Jets and Mets were not friends, even though they played on the same field. The Mets were owned by a miserly old richman, the Earl of Grant. This thrifty owner, known as Don to his friends, paid his players too little and acted selfish about his fields. He would never let the Jets play on his grass while the Mets were still playing. The scribes did not like selfish people, and they began to call the Earl bad names...
...enlightenment: Bertrand is just a flip Don Juan-a stock comic figure who resolves all of life's dilemmas by retreating to adolescence. Despite Denner's amusingly self-effacing performance, it is hard to care about him or, worse still, the women he damages along his selfish way. Truffaut's vulnerability and sweet tragic sense are strangely absent here; this film is just depressing...
...earnest next year; they will probably go through many changes on the way to enactment. In effect, it will take at least another year before the reforms can be transformed into law. Touching any provision of the tax code hits a raw nerve-and not always a selfish one. Treating capital gains as ordinary income, for example, would penalize not only the very rich but also the middle-income salary earner trying to build up an estate for his children through investing in common stocks or real estate. Also, the elimination of the capital gains break might do more...
...maneuvering among the Indians, and the factions within the tribe, do support some whites' doubts that the Indians are the unassimilated and united body they claim to be, Although the fight to regain the Indian land is in part a moral stand, both whites and Indians have other more selfish interests at stake...