Word: selfishnesses
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...Rather, both the radicals and non-radicals are doing the best they can given the constraints and incentives they face. If we want to modify their behavior, the structure of incentives must be changed. Thus, for example, the reason for poor instruction is not that the professors are selfish capitalists, but rather, for rather, that the professional and pecuniary rewards are much greater for research and consulting than for teaching. If the graduate student malaise referred to in the second paragraph is to be relieved, a new system of incentives must be developed which will encourage good teaching and close...
...taking an editorial stand that is vitally necessary to the well-being of this nation. Only one other President has divided this nation as badly as Nixon: Lincoln. His reasons for doing so were motivated by a sense of human justice; Nixon was and is being motivated by purely selfish political considerations and an exaggerated sense of selfimportance. The present crisis in leadership was caused largely by Nixon and those he surrounded himself with, and the people no longer have faith in his ability to effectively govern the nation. If he does not step down on his own, then Congress...
...that counts." And there will be Libber bantering over dinner like a replay of the Battle. And, gutfelt, she will make a martyr of Billy Jean King, while he, half joking and half dead serious, will stick up for Bobby Riggs. And she will defend her right to be selfish when she orders breakfast in bed that Sunday morning, and he, caught in good enough humor, might even go dogtailed to make it. You can't forget, you know, that she's come a long way, baby, a long...
When society uses technology in such a way that the individual's personality is not numbed, then he will feel responsibility for something beyond his own selfish interests. Mr. Jefferson's vantage point should allow him to see that Nixon is not to blame...
Eleanor Perry's script does not have the funk to be exciting or enough true spirit to transcend the wind-blown banalities of the plot. Most bothersome is the conception of Catherine as a selfish, useless whiner who is brought to her senses and full womanhood through the ministrations of Grobart. Even if Cat Dancing is meant to be only a kind of soap-oater fantasy, it is an especially demeaning...