Word: selfishnesses
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...female contingent in labor unions. Though more than two out of five workers are women, only one out of five union members is a woman. Detroit's outspoken Labor Leader Myra Wolfgang figures that men labor chiefs-harboring some old prejudices-really believe that women are overly individualistic, selfish and impulsive and lack the discipline to forgo immediate benefits in order to work for long-range organizational goals. To those indictments women reply that men are the unfair...
...only thing that bothers me about polarization is when it becomes based purely on race. I think you're always going to have polarization. My hope is that we polarize in terms of the decent versus the indecent Americans, the selfish versus the generous, the bad versus the good, the caring people versus the greedy people...
...Iras, two thankless roles must either put on more or different clothes. The colored battle-screen made no contribution. More seriously, the court at Egypt was enervated and decidedly unexotic, unmajestic, uninercurial, and rather bland, tired, and timid. There was petulance instead of the passionate anger of a moody, selfish, regal, lover-queen. Miss Yakutis must avail herself, as I know she can, of a range of tones and rhythms, and soar and admonish and implore and pout and sing her way to complexity. The soldiers are unremittingly declamatory, laboring to render each line as massively as possible. They...
...Those who believe the environmental crisis relates to trees and not to people are wrong," Muskie said. Referring to the high standard of living, he said, "there's still an unwillingness to cut back on selfish exploitation for selfless conservation...
...represent a special-interest group, farms destroying food when we have hungry people, and now a Senator proclaims that we need to fill a Supreme Court vacancy with a judge who will render justice to the mediocre. We are in serious trouble when we must label our greed and selfish lust for power as mere inefficiencies...