Word: selfless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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OBVIOUSLY, POLITICS was more complicated than I had realized. Years of hard work, selfless determination, and $1000-a-plate dinners would be needed before I could hope to fathom such a complex issue. But I had one final question for Mr. Fury before I left...
Mobil decided to let everyone know about its selfless crusade for human dignity last week. In a powerful ad on the op-ed page of The New York Times, Mobil had a "positive story to tell about its ten years of fighting apartheid in South Africa...
...very real harms to the University that it inflicts--in the chilling of rightful and desirable student dissent, in the ever-widening rift between the Administration and the student body it purports to administer to, and in the injustices done to some of the most deserving and selfless members of our community. Jinku Lee 1L Law School
...Molina's selfless behavior in doing a favor for Valentin and his cadre of revolutionaries rings partially true as another example of romantic posturing. But his pitiful end seems inconsistent with the elevated claim Babenco has made throughout for fantasy. Does hanging onto our dreams make us, finally, irrelevant? Molina's final sacrifice is supposed to prove his redemption; just as his leaving home is supposed to indicate newfound maturity. Unfortunately this sort of pandering to what conventional audiences expect in a hero undermines Molina's integrity...
...respectable $60,000. The modest increase may finally be just enough to raise the average ballplayer above the Saudi Arabian poverty line. The average annual salary, on the other hand, should get closer to about $400,000, which in all fairness, is fair compensation for having to work with selfless players like like Lee Mazzili, Roy Smalley, and Jim Rice...