Word: selflessly
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...outside observer might think that Harvard law students were selfless idealists, rightfully infuriated over Dean Robert C. Clark's apparent lack of commitment to their future career path. Those caring law students seem to be willing to do anything to help the millions of Americans who cannot afford representation...
...truth, motives for having babies are never selfless. Children are called to life by adult desires: to experience parenthood, to have an heir, to ensure that a youngster is not an only child. "In a sense we all have children to use them," says bioethicist Michael Shapiro of the University of Southern California. And motives can be mixed. Mary Ayala has long wanted a third child. Abe points out that "if Anissa didn't survive, we'd have another child in the house to help us with our sense of loss." Human needs are so tangled that no one expects...
...children predicted that imminent changes in Russia would lead to the spread of totalitarian, atheist, antihuman regimes throughout the world. To stave off this spread, the children warned, the people of the world must undergo an inner conversion and commit themselves to the selfless act of praying for others...
Breakneck economic growth over the past decade has created enormous possibilities for malfeasance and laid to rest the Communists' revolutionary ideal of a simple, selfless existence...
...classic courtroom confrontation: defendant and prosecutor, both decorated Marine veterans of Viet Nam, locked in a bitter cross-examination. The Oliver North who endured four days of acerbic questioning by prosecutor John Keker last week did not come across as a selfless patriot used by superiors to carry out a covert plan for assisting the Nicaraguan rebels in defiance of a congressional ban. Instead, North emerged as an evasive witness with a selective memory and unusual personal finances...