Word: selfishnesses
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...omitted the most cherished tenet of conservatives: belief in the work ethic. "Anyone who wants to work can get a job." I also question your tenet, "Conviction that people have become too selfish and self-centered, putting their own interests ahead of their families and the country." Many whom I regard as conservatives put their own interests above the national welfare...
...Helen Fadim of Chicago expect that their daughter Kimberly, 4, will be an only child. "I never wanted to be a mother," says Helen, 32. "I'm perfectly willing to acknowledge that I have selfish feelings." Even one child is too many for James...
...wrong and selfish is a common one today. "I'm concerned that the world will eat itself up," says Hop Holmberg of Boston, who agrees with his wife Judy that two children are all they should have. Mrs. Mary Libretti of Madison, N.J., mother of eight, frequently encounters hostility. One woman told her that she and her brood were consuming "too much oxygen and too much space...
...proposition that "the American way of life is superior to that of any other country," 87% of conservatives but only 36% of nonconservatives assented, a divergence of 51 points. The other four tenets, in order of the degree of spread, are: 1) conviction that people have become too selfish and self-centered, putting their own interests ahead of their families and the country, 2) strong support for reinstituting the death penalty, 3) commitment to organized religion, and 4) belief that American Communism represents a great danger to the country...
...more formidable champions. Senator Edward Kennedy urged his House colleagues to pass the amendment because the Havasupai "are not going to build a dam, or put up a factory, or launch a tourist extravaganza." Senator Barry Goldwater said the Sierra Club has become "a closed society, a self-centered, selfish group, who care for nothing but ideas which they themselves originate and which fit only their personal conceptions of the way of life everyone else should be compelled to live." Hubert Humphrey, another Senate supporter, said the amendment would not be environmentally disruptive because "the life of the Havasupai over...