Word: selfishnesses
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There are some words, the researchers found, that workers do not like to hear at all. Corporation conjures up a "selfish" and "ruthless" image, although company gets a friendly reception. Piece rate irritates workers, but they like the term incentive pay; and free enterprise evokes friendlier feelings than capitalism. Workers are not emotionally affected by the word strike, but work stoppage is associated by them with "bad, harmful, and unfair" practices...
...even as they are fighting, the networks are facing up to the probability that they will lose. In a statement implying that pay TV would corrupt the public interest for selfish purposes, CBS President Frank Stanton has nevertheless assured stockholders that if the worst happened, CBS is prepared to take the pay way too. And the trade nurtures the rumor that NBC has a toll system in the works. "If the pay system develops," said President Sarnoff early this year, "free television, as we know it, would face disintegration, and we would have no alternative but to join the coin...
...mother, an unfair handicap on the children, or '"any unreasonable liability upon society." The trouble with too many Catholics, argued Dr. Fisher, is that they will not concede this duty, but "tend rather to suggest that family planning springs only from fear of overpopulation or prudential and selfish desires...
...decreasing percentage of the total registration unless it changes its name. As a former Republican State Central Committee chairman (California, 1950), my experience and observation have convinced me that an indestructible prejudice against Republicanism is deeprooted. The Democrats' propaganda has placed a label of big business and selfish interest on their opposition party, while selling themselves as the only champion of social welfare and prosperity. This false impression is a dishonest appraisal of the differentiation between the parties' principles and accomplishments-but it sticks...
...door, he "saved the morality of altruism" with his duty-setting "categorical imperatives." It was he who bred the mental worm that makes modern men "equate self-interest with evil," that makes businessmen afraid to admit they seek profits (i.e., happiness), that leaves the victims of dictatorship feeling "selfish" if they resist. "The ulti mate monument to Kant and the whole altruist morality is Soviet Russia...