Word: selfishnesses
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...general tone of the meeting was hostile to Union demands. By its end, all professors had tacitly enlisted in Harvard's valiant struggle to made ends meet in the face of the government's indiscriminate cutbacks. In this context, graduate students' efforts to gain more funds sounded like a selfish tactic that merely served to split the ranks in the good fight...
...majority of the addicts have a terribly real stock in the maintenance of the myth of the killer drug. After all, we're spending a couple of billion dollars to maintain, support, job--train and half--way house a tiny minority of individuals whose main occupation is the totally selfish business of hiding from a world which sure, isn't great, but sure isn't all that...
...never seriously wavers. "Those statements have all been made," he announces emphatically. "I'm tired of running, Deirdre. I want my life back." It is because Deirdre wants part of his life too that all her new-found political indignation becomes the prattling of a spoiled and slightly selfish young woman...
Graduate students should keep last Spring's lessons in mind as they begin skirmishing with the Kraus plan. As long as they bumble about, unconcerned or unaware of how selfish their public stance appears, their support will continue to be non-existent. The Union should re-constitute itself, voice demands similar to those advanced last Spring, and carefully connect those demands to the interests with other groups in the University community. Only in this way can graduate students again increase their support to last Spring's levels...
...Irishman of Catholic ancestry and sympathies, whose family circle included agnostics, anticlericals and persons whom an old-fashioned liberal would call "emancipated." An exotic heritage, by Irish standards anyway, which perhaps accounts for his penchant for exposing outwardly altruistic policies that are, in his view, really selfish, cynical and exploitative...