Often, their theories operated on the assumption that the self-interested actions of the rich would benefit everyone, even as those self-interested rich used the same economists to pursue their own agenda.
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He lied about other things too, for more self-interested reasons.
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Those defensive, or self-interested, stock purchases extend the momentum cycle.
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Again, that's different from empathizing with self-interested insiders and instigators.
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Criminals, politicians and other narcissists tend to be self-interested individuals.
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But the vision he articulated was smaller and more self-interested.
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"To be clear, the financial institutions were self-interested," he said.
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For one, consumer privacy needs to be protected from self-interested corporations.
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Corporate statesmanship can also backfire if bosses appear too blatantly self-interested.
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Britain's past achievements were more than philanthropic; they were also self-interested.
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Spotify's complaints are not just self-interested, they are also carefully timed.
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Trump devoted himself to the accumulation of self-interested wealth and power.
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This seemingly banal, self-interested statement becomes the heart of the documentary.
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The ranks of DoH opponents aren't filled only with self-interested corporations.
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Unfortunately, various government agencies themselves have become self-interested parties in this game.
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Trump just went about it in the worst, most disastrously self-interested way.
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So for free speech read "Facebook" as the most likely self-interested source.
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Bernie Sanders's ally Turner, meanwhile, has been accused of self-interested behavior too.
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Self-interested politicians have made a mockery of one of their primary responsibilities.
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Kelly Grace Smith, Fayetteville, N.Y. Amanda Hess considers some empathy as self-interested.
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Protecting democracy from self-interested, power-hungry politicians isn't so hard after all.
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Both states created their commissions via voter initiative, which bypasses self-interested legislators.
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From a purely self-interested standpoint, Mr. Gorka needs to cut it out.
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There's an exploitation going on here that the media justifies for self-interested reasons.
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A healthy nationalism based on self-interested dealing need not lead to adverse outcomes.
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They are largely self-interested, and will behave in more or less predictable ways.
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They're also making a self-interested decision because they're worried about injuries and liability.
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Contemporary social science was built on the idea that we're self-interested, calculating creatures.
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Especially since Republicans in the Senate keep showing their cowardly and self-interested cards.
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But there is no self interested political reason for Republicans to fear felon enfranchisement.
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In Wisconsin, "Never Trump" means "How About Cruz?" as self-interested leaders like Gov.
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A more callow, cunning, cowardly and self-interested yet moronic figure you couldn't find.
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Our national monuments were never meant to be held hostage by self-interested politicians.
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Or do you think most people are greedy, dishonest, selfish, unethical and self-interested?
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That has turned California into a state of isolated and arguably self-interested islands.
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Reporters have always relied on sources who provide critical information for self-interested reasons.
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A self-interested real estate developer (voiced by Mateus Solano) is pulling the strings.
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He has always been an unabashedly crude, self-interested, self-promoting and self-regarding man.
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Everything goes wrong for Isaac, largely because Isaac is despicable, self-interested, and absent-minded.
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The last of the terrible trio is the self-interested voice of big incumbent businesses.
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There is a self-interested case for the formulation of global safety standards, for example.
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Elected officials—many who are self-interested lawyers—will surely have other problems with DDD.
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Theirs is a self-interested kind of affection, of course, founded on completely different motivations.
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The media has a systematic self-interested bias toward exaggerating how close the race is.
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France and Germany are notable for pursuing self-interested actions to advance their commercial interests.
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On Money Before the financial crisis, bankers were often regarded as greedy and self-interested.
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It is inconceivable the president would pardon him in such a nakedly self-interested way.
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There are, of course, also motivations that could be spun as self-interested or political.
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This self-interested assault is doing incalculable damage to the integrity of American law enforcement.
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One, maybe the whole thing was a consequence of Trump's racist and self-interested instincts.
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But there are others — far less self-interested observers — who have made the same point.
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He called climate change a hoax, with a self-interested focus on the bottom line.
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Sadly, with the flick of one prosecutor's self-interested pen, that vision is now gone.
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Trusting a government of self-interested people to know how to redistribute ethically is naïve.
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Eventually their heedless and self-interested scams have very real consequences, even beyond Jasper's death.
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That's by no means a moral stance, but it is a very self-interested one.
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Clearly, a self-pardon is a breach of fiduciary duty because it's manifestly self-interested.
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He pledges to be more self-interested, obliging feckless allies to pay for their own security.
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Cable companies, too, are self-interested and prone to resisting change that could hurt their businesses.
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Out of this you get an account of all political activities as self-interested and rational.
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The selfish, cold and self-interested system known as 'national advantage' merely smothers countries in difficulties.
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I don't mean that in the stereotypical sense — that its residents are vapid, self-interested snobs.
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In fact, it's possible to see both sides of the Masterpiece Cakeshop case as self-interested.
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But instead of being a watchdog, self-interested accreditors have become agents of the status quo.
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But Mr. Dagan may have had another reason, more political and only slightly less self-interested.
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Lenders don't need inaccurate reports from self-interested companies; they can do their own due diligence.
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But that did not deter a daylong jumble of industrious, contradictory and often self-interested speculation.
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As Woodward would be the first to admit, sources' motivations are often complex and self-interested.
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His macabre enterprise, so dependent on the landowners' self-interested incuriosity, disintegrates under Gogol's exuberant scrutiny.
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History shows that fervent debate—and self-interested misinformation—go back to the mid-20th century.
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Party strategies that rely upon self-interested candidates to coordinate together really aren't very good strategies.
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She was modeling the essence of Trump himself: mean, bullying, self-interested, self-aggrandizing and rapacious.
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We live in exactly the kind of world you'd expect greedy, self-interested creatures to produce.
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Attitudes that look virtuous and open-minded from one perspective look opportunistic and self-interested from another.
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Granted, this is what the Army guys have to say, and they are of course self-interested.
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We didn't get here overnight, but rather through decades of shabby, self-interested politics on all sides.
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But, true to form, Berlin is deaf even to the idea of a self-interested European solidarity.
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A purely self-interested foreign policy would need to take into account donors other than China, too.
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But the synergy that Google's able to obtain with self-interested hardware manufacturers is a suboptimal compromise.
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Because, simply, Rick—although you may feel this way about certain political philosophies—is truly self-interested.
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VCs also can offer advice about structuring future financing rounds (even though they'll be self-interested, obviously).
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But her tenure at Our Revolution has been marked by accusations of mismanagement and self-interested careerism.
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" In that title, Comey calls Trump an unethical and self-interested leader, who is "untethered to truth.
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On the day of publication an implicated politician wrote a self-interested condemnation in the mainstream press.
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Within that context, it's very tricky to understand why a self-interested person would ever do this.
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Trump's allegation of wrongdoing by Biden is merely a warmed-over version of Shokin's self-interested complaint.
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The decline of institutional expertise has made Congress dependent on outside, often self-interested, sources of information.
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A few offer an honest if self-interested argument: rebuilding Syria might encourage refugees to go home.
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At the same time, these self-interested or party-specific arguments are part of a larger conversation.
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If not, voters will remain at the mercy of self-interested politicians, with no help in sight.
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Partisan gerrymandering creates an unrepresentative democracy and encourages self-interested politics where politicians put party before country.
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So one should not characterize leaks, as the cowardly and self-interested Republicans have, as the issue.
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Facebook users — and democratic societies — remain, by default, preyed upon by self-interested political interests thanks to Facebook's policies which are dressed up in a self-interested misappropriation of "free speech" as a cloak for its unfettered exploitation of individual attention as fuel for a propaganda-as-service business.
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And China is the 8,000-pound gorilla when it comes to such self-interested and trade-distorting tactics.
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The self-interested strategies of journalists and politicians thus create an information-rich environment for New Hampshire voters.
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You get there when people are continually making short-term, self-interested decisions to maintain power and influence.
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The economists' standard assumption about human nature, that people are self-interested materialists, does not seem totally ridiculous.
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The band of self-interested survivors clustered around the prime minister are not paragons of consistency or principle.
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But it is too big to maintain the self-interested, opportunistic, cynical worldview that helped it to rise.
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So, basically, Google et al stand accused of spreading (even more) fake news with a self-interested flavor.
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"We're not Syria or Libya," they chant in Algeria, while self-interested leaders warn of chaos and bloodshed.
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Mr Trump further claimed that the UN was founded as a forum for strong, proudly self-interested nations.
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People are not purely rational or self-interested, but reason with limited information and follow rules of thumb.
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Trump has some very good, self-interested reasons to try to stay out of a major military conflict.
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With so much fortune and fame in the mix, we cannot leave these decisions to self-interested parties.
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But the study authors note that previous research has focused on self-interested reasons for ending a relationship.
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Not to mention that it would epitomize the cronyist, self-interested dealings of Washington politicians and union heads.
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That trust, going against the self-interested instincts of the individual countries, is radically new in the world.
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Children were wise and adults idiotic, and everyone was attempting some humanly self-interested version of their best.
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You didn't have to worry about creating noble citizens; you could get by with rationally self-interested ones.
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With self-interested motives, an English couple (Alan Bates and Maggie Smith) offers her residence in their home.
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Both are self-interested, corrupt and authoritarian, but they exhibit significant policy differences and have become dangerously antagonistic.
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And businesses should take the lead, if only out of a self-interested concern for their bottom line.
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In other words, American Jews aren't the uniquely greedy, self-interested characters anti-Semites imagine them to be.
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I would say, for a purely self-interested greedy standpoint, you may as well lean to social issues.
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So in some ways it's a self-interested outlook, because government's role for the creative class is different.
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"Some members of the council have kept us from taking action for cynical and self-interested reasons," Haley said.
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That means that most districts are drawn by the people who directly benefit from gerrymandering: self-interested partisan officials.
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So, it's true for marketing language, but when will Persado be coming for my job (sorry, I'm self-interested)?
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Because they are experts at controlling the narrative and spinning public perception, Scorpios can be manipulative and self-interested.
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If we talk about ourselves in the language of self-interest, then self-interested people is what we get.
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But civilisation is adaptable and resilient and some forms of self-interested human optimism do seem hard to crack.
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Society is made up of self-interested individuals, he argued, and through markets these individuals make collective life possible.
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It's true that he could have fought on, and perhaps from a purely self-interested perspective, he should have.
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It allows EPA to make unilateral, self-interested determinations regarding pesticide impacts on endangered species on an extended timeframe.
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Trump's attack on Judge Curiél may be regarded as self-interested and crude, but judges are not off-limits.
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We are not just Ayn Randian self-interested individuals moving of our own volition and building trains or whatever.
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While self-interested and ideological opponents may not see the benefits of educational choice, both parents and researchers do.
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In showing us a relentlessly self-interested and interminably mistaken Freud, it might be said he's done just that.
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New Yorkers who expected better bought into the myth that tech companies are more than just self-interested businesses.
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But in post-war Europe self-interested Eurocrats in Brussels would charge into power vacuums to assert their new authority.
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The commentator David Frum in particular has emphasized the way that the party has been captured by self-interested elites.
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Atom aims to offer a genuine alternative to the insidious and self-interested banks that dominate the UK banking landscape.
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Although many of its critics are self-interested, others worry about the prosecutors' use of preventive detention and plea bargaining.
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And as a businessman like Donald Trump should know better than anyone, nothing is more humane than self-interested capitalism.
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As a battery maker poised to profit from the shift, Wang's guesstimate is certainly self-interested, and probably wishful thinking.
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The more plausible scenario is the billiard ball model of international relations, with self-interested states competing against each other.
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Other people see them in the same way they might see Allred: craven, self-interested, and vaguely in bad taste.
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I've long considered this advice hyperbolic and self-interested (of course my mom doesn't want me to move far away).
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It includes the company's small, self-interested, short-sighted efforts being propagandized as a real campaign to counter information warfare.
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Perhaps the worst basic idea in economics is the nasty picture of human nature as purely self-interested and calculating.
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Trump is engaged in a shameful campaign to weaken the United States for some mysterious mix of self-interested reasons.
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If there were no other reason for the Tories to go, their self-interested Brexit bungling would be reason enough.
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Canadians can start by rejecting the self-interested delusions offered by Conservative leaders at gas stations and in the Twitterverse.
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His work provides all the respectable reasoning needed to explain that the world needs more self-interested competition, not less.
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Today, we have powerful, self-interested corporations that benefit relatively few people — and that dominate the many other weakened institutions.
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Self-interested politicians have no business making maps with the sole purpose of keeping themselves and their party in power.
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By nature, most of us are busy with small tasks and immediate pleasures; we are self-interested and literal-minded.
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Trump, plainly, is incapable of doing performing this function in anything but the most cramped and narrowly self-interested way.
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They considered the implications of people's ability to look into the future and to anticipate the behaviour of self-interested politicians.
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This is consistent with lots of recent research showing that self-interested financial motivations and more pro-social motivations coexist uneasily.
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What could the voters of such a region possibly see in a loud and self-interested New York real estate tycoon?
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The disconnect between how Watchmen's creators thought of Rorschach and how some fans have perceived him — a self-interested nihilist vs.
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Between the lines: The rule itself is pretty small potatoes, but the lawsuit shows the self-interested goals of each party.
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These posthumans may come up with their own goals, or break-off into self-interested groups, each with its own agenda.
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Icahn has said his proposal is not self-interested because it would help CVR as well as many of CVR's competitors.
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Huggins's fear was certainly self-interested, though even here a moral conception, of self and interest, may have been at work.
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While the former leaves shareholders as likely fall guys for self-interested risk-taking by insiders, the second is legitimately positive.
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That's useful work — as long we let wildly self-interested people do this core task of democracy, we'll need some guardrails.
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But something tells me that Trump does not have the constitutional restraint and self-interested prudence to allow this to happen.
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"The most realistic show on television, in my opinion, and you can say I'm self-interested, is 'Madam Secretary,'" he said.
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He aims to weave a web of economic and diplomatic ties that create self-interested reasons for Cuban leaders to change.
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Far from being the caricature of a self-interested politician, she seems to have been the ideal of a public servant.
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Yes, there is a self-interested incentive here for polishing up the president's legacy and his bruised image on foreign policy.
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But New Yorkers can't blame bad laws and self-interested lawmakers entirely for their failure to show up at the polls.
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It alone, it seems, can prevent narrow, self-interested factions from getting the government to serve unseemly and even shameful ends.
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Cartoonishly self-interested cabinet members and senior advisers were drawn from the corporate elite Mr. Trump derided on the campaign trail.
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Yet behavioral economists have this very narrow notion of rationality: abstract, formal, self-interested, and not at all about social norms.
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Gorski shows how a social-science, technocratic mind-set has triumphed, treating politics as just a competition of self-interested utilitarians.
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The book casts Trump as unethical, self-interested and "untethered to truth," and offers some personal attacks on the president's appearance.
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This makes her seem like a completely self-interested jerk instead of the brave reporter the show needs her to be.
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"Self-interested critics have a vested interest in spreading misinformation about Amazon, but the facts tell a different story," she added.
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They brand those who voted the other way as a liberal elite, patronizing, self-interested, out of touch with real life.
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Voltaire was typical of the self-interested commoner who promoted commerce and liberty as an antidote to arbitrary authority and hierarchy.
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When the dominion of Tyrion "the Only Good" Lannister ends, the same old families will make the same old self-interested decisions.
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She is a politician, therefore self-interested and cynical at times—yet driven, they say, by an overarching desire to improve America.
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America has had close relationships with odious regimes in the past, and has on occasion offered hypocritical justifications for self-interested policies.
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Moreover, the Republicans' ulterior motive in trying to press their nominee home is more nakedly self-interested than it was in 1991.
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Capitalism is built on a set of assumptions about human nature: We're self-interested, obsessed with status and prestige, and inherently competitive.
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I believe this development to be real and durable with a level of fervency only a deeply self-interested party can muster.
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Instead of having nonpartisan, professional election administrators -- the norm in most other democracies -- self-interested politicians dictate the rules of the game.
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Clinton has frequently hit on Trump's dealings in the city over the past two weeks, painting him as a self-interested businessman.
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Unfortunately, we've seen this script before, and others will be too blinded or too self-interested to make just and necessary changes.
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Amazon has exhibited three particularly offensive and aggressive behaviors toward open source: Amazon's behavior toward open source is self-interested and rational.
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However, what has prompted concern about Trump's mental health is not his assets but his intemperate, erratic, bombastic, and self-interested behavior.
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She is a vastly imperfect person by any standard, at times brave and at times venal, obviously admirable and obviously self-interested.
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But back in the 1980s, they promoted a vision in which a community of self-interested individuals was a force for good.
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Yet Republicans like Gaetz and Judiciary Committee ranking member Doug Collins (R-GA) insist that Trump's real motivations weren't so self-interested.
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The accusations of "isolationism" and "unilateralism" are actually aimed not at sheer indifference to various world events, but at self-interested indifference.
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He blames the local prelates for the stalling of a political "dialogue" which he wants to conduct on his own self-interested terms.
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After a litany of incompetent, lazy, evil, self-interested rulers, one wonders what it will take before the kingdom realizes its fatal flaw.
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His lead crumbled amid Republican attacks that characterized Bayh as a self-interested politician who had become disconnected from the people of Indiana.
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"I was increasingly concerned that LGBT people were becoming very self interested, very myopic, and that is a recipe for disaster," he explains.
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The American people are exasperated with the empty promises of self-interested politicians who refuse to listen to increasing calls for gun safety.
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A good administrator will listen to self-interested lawyers and lobbyists, but then seek expert agency counsel and follow the law and evidence.
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Both groups are self-interested parties attempting to feed at the public trough although the politicians seem less oblivious to their true nature.
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Yes, Donald Trump is a weak and insecure man with no core values to prevent him from acting on a self-interested whim.
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The decision to do this while Facebook is dismantling its credibility with a series of craven, self-interested actions is a canny one.
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In Operation Check, the government sought to sow dissent in gang ranks by portraying the leaders of MS-13 as self-interested profiteers.
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It's the most transparently self-interested policy he's proposed since taking office, and it will likely save him tens of millions of dollars.
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They've taught me how to listen in a way that isn't self-interested, and they've taught me how to relate to nearly anyone.
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Whatever the answer, Mr. Scaramucci is convinced it is all self-interested: "The unspeakable truth is that C.E.O.s and their staff are horrified."
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The Hamiltonians are the business-minded internationalists, cold-eyed and stability-oriented and wary of wars that seem idealistic rather than self-interested.
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He believes political and corporate leaders undermine citizens' rights with their hidden, self- interested maneuvering for ever more power and ever larger profits.
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The platform becomes a propaganda machine for manufacturing the appearance of broad public engagement and grassroots advocacy for a self-interested policy change.
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There are lots of public-minded reasons a company like Facebook wants to promote encryption — but there are nakedly self-interested ones, too.
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"The report was developed and promoted by a collection of self-interested critics," an Amazon spokesperson said in response to the new report.
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It was cynical, self-interested, and perhaps irrevocably distorted the historical record of the Wehrmacht even as World War 2 historiography was taking shape.
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The group was so barbaric that even al-Qaeda denounced it—though for self-interested reasons, not out of a concern for human rights.
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The Clinton campaign pounced, producing a series of videos highlighting the comments as they looked to define Trump as a heartless, self-interested billionaire.
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Participants describe the studies as being a kind of support group for Washington's godly minority, offering a respite from secularism and self-interested machinations.
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It has become fashionable to scorn such models because they rely on unrealistic assumptions—in particular, that people are rational and purely self-interested.
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People both well-meaning and self-interested argue about whether supply and demand actually applies on the neighborhood scale in an overheated housing market.
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Our theory and experiments apply only to the first sense of "calculating": They suggest that engaging in self-interested calculations is what undermines trust.
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It is easy for art people to empathize with struggles that take place 8,000 miles away, unencumbered by personal loyalties or self-interested agendas.
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But Kerry is, in many ways, a throwback—someone who believes that compromise and careful diplomacy can find common ground between self-interested actors.
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The main reason for partisan gerrymandering in the US is that in most states, redistricting is handled by self-interested politicians in state legislatures.
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The top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Patrick Leahy of Vermont, said self-interested Republicans were playing politics with a cherished constitutional duty.
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However, many have pointed out that Homo economicus — that instinctively self-interested, bartering, trading linchpin of economic theory — is little more than an abstraction.
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The justices will see why if they look at what's happening in several states where lawmakers have been holding clinics in self-interested mapmaking.
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The market forces at work are not only self-interested but also happily in line with the most attainable strategy for addressing climate change.
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As Ray's ambition grows, he also grows more self-interested, adapting a purely instrumental approach to other people that seeps into his home life.
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In particular, it may contribute to the closed-minded, partisan and self-interested nature of so much of today's public and political dialogue. Why?
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They would not be self-interested, in other words—they would not, as Thaddeus Stevens had, try to use impeachment to boost their party.
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More of the same old political playbook by the two major parties and self-interested politicians hindered the development of an independent party's development.
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Meanwhile, Beijing will be able to point to Trump's extralegal stances as proof that the United States is just another self-interested, transactional nation.
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They're as self-interested as Google or anybody else, but they believe they've found a good business selling internet access on open, unobstructed pipes.
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Apple's defense of user privacy, while certainly self-interested, is a boon to its users and a lever for change within the tech industry.
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And there's always a self-interested manager who goes out of his way to tell the addict his existence is holding his wife back.
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And it's not idealists who would truly be in charge of redrawing the lines should Democrats regain power in these states, but self-interested politicians.
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In a world without PASPA, every fan could have myriad self-interested outcomes, based not just on the game, but also on every single play.
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Not surprisingly, it's behaving like the pragmatic, minimally ideological, and selfishly self-interested nation it's been for more than those last 44 years and counting.
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But shamelessly self-interested and probably contrary to his real views on the EU though it is, the mayor's move is perhaps not entirely disingenuous.
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You can't do that without the government, so from a very self-interested point of view, and in the interest of his companies, I understand.
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So how do you get people to share their perspective in a less self-interested (or, in the case of comments, less rant-y) way?
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Obviously, majorities should rule where government is going to rule, but the fact is that majorities can be tyrannical, and they can be self-interested.
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"My Highest Mental Achievement," a dramatic monologue and one of the strongest stories from her second collection, presents a self-interested lover taking her leave.
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But this type of self-interested behavior should make Washington policymakers think long and hard about how exactly NATO's current structure promotes American national interests.
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Deason and Icahn have argued that Xerox's board acted in a self-interested fashion and failed shareholders by approving a deal that undervalues the company.
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He's a self-interested public figure who has privileged his professional and academic brand over the welfare of the students he was appointed to protect.
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And this magnificent portrayal of a childhood perpetually interrupted goes a long way toward excusing the complex, self-interested adult who springs from that past.
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"I think when people see that we are using this bullhorn for something that's not self-interested," she added, "they're more likely to pay attention."
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Among major democracies, only in the United States are self-interested politicians given the exclusive power to design election districts for themselves and their allies.
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More broadly, Ms. Mogherini said that an administration that has made "America First" its guiding principle will find that Europe can be equally self-interested.
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Even before Sunday's attack, Maduro's consolidation of power had left many protesters disappointed with what they see as a quarrelsome and self-interested opposition coalition.
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The overlap between the father and son's political and business interests have fueled GOP attacks that Biden is little more than a self-interested politician.
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The episode figures large in the folklore of Macron's political education, as the embodiment of the self-interested gridlock that he became determined to circumvent.
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Trump's initial window of opportunity was so many Americans' belief that Washington, Wall Street and the media had been irredeemably corrupted by self-interested elites.
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But a truly self-interested person, economists say, would focus on the automation, which could wipe out millions of jobs, rather than immigration or trade.
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The views of corporations are just one highly self-interested pole of that debate; only regulation can balance their incentives away from short-term profit.
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Not impersonal abstractions but groups of self-interested individuals, federal, state and local governments will never willingly release their $6 trillion grip on the American economy.
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Rather, their view is that he is on their side and that the protestations of his opponents merely reflect the self-interested defensiveness of the establishment.
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That kind of power attracts attention and respect, especially in a world as political, ruthless, and self-interested as the one depicted in Game of Thrones.
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"Our outlook and the facts have been distorted and obscured by the naysayers, self-interested critics and publicity seekers," Mr. Dauman said in a conference call.
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First, the bishops' strong line on immigration is to a degree self-interested, given the steep growth in the number of Hispanic Catholics living in America.
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We can't allow someone's self-interested political agenda to deprive veterans of the oversight they deserve, and their caregivers the rights that keep the system honest.
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We should not have to depend on self-interested, back-room industry determinations to protect us from the partially hydrogenated oils or mycoproteins of the future.
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Case after case in recent years has shown that universities, run by self-interested administrators underqualified on the subject of rape, do not provide any justice.
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"Well-meaning critics" are concerned the new innovation won't work out but hope it does, and "self-interested critics" resist change to maintain their own dominance.
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Because it turns out that even the most self-interested members of the political class, the true weather vanes swinging in the wind, have their limits.
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Luther differs from orthodox writers in taking "works" to be corrupted in being self-interested, that is, in being undertaken to help secure one's own salvation.
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The answer involves a mix of self-interested industry groups, design choices made by people far away, a lack of municipal foresight, and outright institutional racism.
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Trouble brews when a deeply held commitment to the underdog comes into conflict with the self-interested pocketbook and lifestyle concerns of the upper middle class.
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It's impossible for Jane to comprehend whether she wants to protect this naïve girl or defend her own territory (is her motive pure or self-interested?).
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That it is not is only because so many of the demands made by FIFA's self-enriching, self-interested guardians of the game are so comic.
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And so, like with so many other Trump administration efforts, a self-interested and under-qualified minority will dictate policies impacting the rest of the world.
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A permanent fix for partisan gerrymandering would be to take redistricting entirely out of the hands of self-interested lawmakers and give it to independent commissions.
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And as regulators act against today's self-interested defaults there are savvy alternatives like Qwant primed and waiting to offer consumers a different kind of value.
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If he limits his scope to Democrats, Our Revolution will be no more than an interest group, which is, paradoxically, a conservative and self-interested niche.
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The NFL, and its teams, despite their self-validation as anything else, should still be presumed to be self-interested and business-first at all times.
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Even though individual countries could have benefited temporarily from narrowly self-interested policies, they decided to stand together, avoiding a cascading protectionism that would have hurt everyone.
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The nation's industrial elite may still be self-interested, but their politics align with a broad base of green businesses, schools, college graduates, and self-employed workers.
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Well, there's never been any good evidence that Kim is any less rational or self-interested than leaders of Russia and China (notwithstanding the occasional hysterical headline).
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As a result, any self-interested investment the rich make in their own communities has little chance of "spilling over" to benefit middle‐ and low-income families.
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Let us remember the fallen and wounded of the Capital by rejecting the self-interested invectives of politicians and others who find facts uncomfortable and truth inconvenient.
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But they do have to compete, so each individual country has a self-interested reason to lower its corporate tax rate, undercutting other countries to attract investment.
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The tech industry has earned a takedown book that documents its self-interested justifications for any number of policies that are clearly not in the public interest.
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Mr. Trump would incur the same potential liability were he to issue pardons for self-interested or corrupt reasons, and the courts might not recognize their validity.
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The invocation of national security will look like a bad-faith maneuver to the world, an excuse to take self-interested action on behalf of domestic industry.
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Indeed, weak as the President seemed in contrast with Macron, his cravenly self-interested comments at the Monday press conference highlighted his scant relevance to the proceedings.
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The alternative — letting self-interested politicians draw maps that cement their power and ignore the voices of voters — is to carve out the heart of representative democracy.
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Democratic leaders immediately insisted the result was illegitimate, the product of a self-interested cover-up by Republicans, and promised to continue their investigations of Mr. Trump.
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Under his leadership, we've become nothing more than a big, self-interested bully — a bully with delusions of grandeur, who isn't nearly as tough as he thinks.
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Clearly, though, there's a stark risk of high quality information being drowned out by the tsunami of BS that's being paid for by self-interested political actors.
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The philosopher Tetsuro Watsuji argued that the thick internal walls found in Western homes indicated the real meaning there of "family": pragmatic cohabitation by self-interested individuals.
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It brought people together as equals in principle — self-interested bargainers in the market with no preexisting duties to one another — rather than as, say, masters and slaves.
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His opponents were outraged, which delighted his supporters, even as the Republican leadership clung to a self-interested hope that, surely, the president could not have been serious.
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Individuals are self-interested, but to take advantage of economic opportunity people must often work together and find ways to align their interests (or minimise conflicts of interest).
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The most self-interested way to think about the issue is to consider whether you would want to be neighbors with someone who had been held in isolation.
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Self-interested drivers opting for the quickest route do not take into account their effect of lengthening others' journey times, and so can gum up a new shortcut.
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The victory had its roots in a crusading press, in resolute reporters and their papers standing up to parochial, self-interested cries of witch hunts and fake news.
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It is easy to compare Hershey with Viacom — another company that is consumed by a toxic mix of self-interested players, including its controlling shareholder, Sumner M. Redstone.
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The story of Salem, for Miller, was the story of any mass panic — how self-interested human use fear and panic to stoke "witch hunts" for personal gain.
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As nervous as congressional Republicans may be about primary challenges, they also keep showing that their support of Trump is almost purely self-interested — and not very deep.
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She talked a lot about the impact of race on inequality, and the impact of a self-interested class of highly influential millionaires and billionaires on fueling inequality.
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The assumption that self-interested firms would self-regulate gave rise to repeated rounds of deregulation that gave us what I call the "shampoo economy": bubble, bust, repeat.
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Dubai's ruling al-Maktoum family has long pledged reforms aimed at bringing rule of law to a business realm often subject to the self-interested edicts of officials.
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This self-interested maneuvering is more obvious when it comes to Exxon, the very American oil company that was funding climate denialist groups just a few years ago.
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To him, politicians were far from noble, disinterested stewards of the public weal; they were self-interested actors who traded public services and projects in exchange for votes.
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Even though he&aposs vowed in retirement to stay out of Colombia&aposs rancorous political battles, he can&apost resist one last piece of self-interested advice to Duque.
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Many of the new Koch donations are "not necessarily self-interested," said Benjamin Soskis, a researcher at the Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy at the left-leaning Urban Institute.
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There's no way legalization would have even made it on the ballot in November had it not been for the self-interested scheme that a few billionaires pushed through.
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But he's also self-interested, and News Corp was among a handful of companies and industry groups that signed a letter in support of the EU's fine on Google.
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AS THEIR first major initiative of the new year, Republican congressmen announced a scheme so crassly self-interested as to suggest they had learned nothing from the old one.
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Critics say Ivanka is a self-interested hypocrite, providing a pleasing front to an administration whose policies she at least tacitly abets, except for mild and strategically deployed complaints.
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She's clearly self-interested — she's trying to avoid deportation back to her home country of Belarus and is asking the US to extradite her in exchange for her information.
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But it's also a self-interested move, because it definitely helps these companies recruit talent in a hiring market that is competitive with few qualified individuals to go around.
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The less the truth can be readily discerned, the easier it is to wash away controversies, cover up misdeeds, and supplant earnest conversations with your own, self-interested narratives.
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The key critique of American government articulated in the 2016 election was that the establishment had become fundamentally self-interested, self-serving, and had forgotten about the common man.
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He isn't running for president this time (we think; let's see where things stand at the convention), so his arguments are less likely to seem flailing and self-interested.
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They are run by the same self-interested billionaires who think of the rest of us as their pawns and turn us against each other for their own purposes.
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Two feminist impulses are in conflict here: It's not always possible to defend a female boss's reputation from attack while also protecting female employees from a self-interested employer.
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It will, indeed, require all of us, working toward one noble, and ultimately self-interested, objective to preserve the quality of life as we know it on planet Earth.
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Something is terribly foul, then, when Republicans in Congress enrich themselves and their president through a blatantly self-interested tax bill, enacted with no public hearings and minimal scrutiny.
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In a chat with Guy Kawasaki at South by Southwest, Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales spoke out about self-interested parties editing their own pages on the Internet's collaborative encyclopedia.
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America and Europe have three main sources of ideas on how to make business work better for everyone: the left, the right, and incumbent firms with their self-interested agenda.
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The debate stage isn't really the best format for such a discussion, since everyone's arguments on who would be most electable are so self-interested (the answer is always "me").
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The bottom line on the Sunni Arabs is that most are too divided, risk averse, self-interested and wary of Washington to be agents of the US's Middle East agenda.
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But even critics of Jones and InfoWars, his right-wing media outlet, viewed Facebook and YouTube's actions on Monday as reactive and self-interested, coming just hours after Apple's announcement.
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Likewise, Stephen Strange is a brilliant but self-interested prick who, after a hand injury and the loss of his mentor, eventually learns how to be a moderately selfless superhero.
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But privilege confers responsibility beyond itself, and one need not invoke pitchforks marching up the eighteenth fairway to show why MBA students have self-interested reasons for rethinking our ideology.
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Such steps look nothing like the long-lasting, economy-wide wage gains arising from the self-interested responses of companies to the investment incentives created by the tax rate reduction.
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If you erode that trust, like Scott Pruitt has through a series of bad decisions and self-interested actions, you can no longer be an effective administrator of the law.
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It&aposs the term assigned to the group of assumptions that economists employ when making predictions — that humans are utility maximizers, entirely rational, and completely self-interested at all times.
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In other words, politicians are self-interested, and people may be sick of them, but it's important to remember that the existential purpose of most corporations is to generate profit.
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First, whittle down this ridiculous mountain of self-interested wireless patent claims to the fewer than 2,000 patent families that most experts believe are truly essential to smartphone handset makers.
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He's one of those characters who is so implausibly good at everything that you'd hate him if he weren't so likable — and if he were not so satisfyingly self-interested.
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David Anders' Blaine DeBeers, the enterprising brains behind a murderous zombie Meals-on-Wheels program, is a consistent highlight, smirking and snarking his way through scheme after self-interested scheme.
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Narrating the action is the Scottish philosopher Adam Smith, the patron saint of laissez-faire capitalists, who argued that each person's self-interested pursuit would automatically maximize the public good.
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So far, there has been only self-interested self-regulation that looks like a mishmash of reactive and haphazard decisions by executives who seem to remain ignorant of human nature.
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In her view, society itself could be reorganized around the laws of the market, with myriad self-interested individuals voluntarily competing with one another and producing optimal outcomes for all.
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Wilson and, indirectly, President Trump, both reflections of our polarized, dysfunctional, self-interested, and self-indulgent politics today he went on to tell some more truth – now about our country.
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One potential new safeguard would be for Congress to make the Justice Department more independent, like the Federal Reserve, thus insulating it from the self-interested meddling of unethical presidents.
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"Its endorsement has transformed random opinions by self-interested nonexperts into definitive studies offered to justify law and policy, while real studies by real scientists go unnoticed," the authors wrote.
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What's remarkable is how much Cruz has tolerated over the last six months when the two were de facto allies, revealing how cynical and self-interested Cruz is capable of being.
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"Joke" is certainly too generous; chanting K-I-S-S-I-N-G at the president and his craven fan club of self-interested hacks is resisting nothing but real critique.
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And after a decade of thinking about Liz's self-interested feminism, it is Jenna's relationship to feminist concerns like misogynistic violence and discrimination against gender nonconformity that are most salient today.
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"I think this is happening in some ways because we're in an election year, and self-interested politicians are using religion as a tool [to stir up base support]," she said.
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AND SO THERE'S A LOT OF DEBATE ABOUT WHAT THE RIGHT COURSE FORWARD IS, BUT THE CLEAR THING IS LET'S BE CAREFUL ABOUT IT BECAUSE WE'RE SELF INTERESTED AS AN INDUSTRY.
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Critics claim Caitlyn is a self-interested outsider whose political conservatism and privileged status as a wealthy, white American compromise her involvement in the transgender movement's intersectional fight for social justice.
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Monae is a gift to the world, and any company that introduces her to more potential fans is doing a little bit of good alongside their self-interested pursuit of customers.
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But at the same time we must demand that the security of Israelis also be recognized as a moral issue and not just the self-interested concern of the Jewish community.
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He tends to view human behavior as self-interested, driven by a Nietzschean will to power, but he runs an organization founded on the idea that individuals can be selflessly courageous.
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There's also a more immediately self-interested argument to be made, which is we don't really know what a sterilized planet is going to do to us in the long-term.
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Their suspicions are easy to understand: The Trump administration asks Chinese (and Americans) to believe that the U.S. can be both radically self-interested and a disinterested champion of fair play.
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They hate it, they don't have any use for it — it's too slow, it's cumbersome, it's full of self-interested people that are unattractive — but it's going to have to happen.
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People sympathetic to Gamergate's professed cause, who consider themselves part of the gaming industry's free thinkers, invulnerable to political or personal influence, surely wouldn't follow so nakedly a self-interested leader.
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The shocking development bolstered defense arguments that Mr. Howe was a self-interested liar whose testimony could not be believed; lawyers monitoring the case called the arrest a prosecutor's worst nightmare.
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Overlaying the geostrategic clash between Saudi Arabia and Iran are the machinations of other regional and foreign powers that are using local radical groups to achieve their self-interested political ends.
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But that's predicated upon an idea that they are Christian social conservatives who are ultimately self-interested, only [interested] in creating a world where their business or their businesses can flourish.
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He imagines a Trumpian autocracy built upon the most ordinary of foundations: a growing economy, a cynical public, a cowed media, a self-interested business community, and a compliant Republican Party.
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Ordinary people are honest and good; the powerful are self-interested and fraudulent (as manifested by the Great Recession, the euro crisis, growing inequality, rampant impunity for the rich, etc. etc.).
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Groucho plays the happily corrupt leader of a fictional nation who starts a war just because he feels insulted by a rival; Chico and Harpo are his equally self-interested spies.
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" He added, "They see that some of us are so self-interested, and so self-protective, that we will ally ourselves with someone who violates all that is sacred to us.
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Adam Smith and the fathers of traditional economics gave us the idea of humans as rational economic actors, primed to make self-interested decisions that lead to good outcomes for everyone.
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The Electoral College, designed to protect America from the election of a self-interested demagogue as its leader — has arguably served to enable the installation of same in the Oval Office.
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And beyond some wealthy activists who have a personal stake in the issue, it's usually self-interested members or would-be members of the pot industry who are best poised to contribute.
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In Moore's view, readers who don't see Rorschach's worldview as nihilistic and reprehensible are often like Rorschach himself: unable to see the problem with believing in such rigid, self-interested moral codes.
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And there things might have stayed, if not for Ronald Reagan and the modern conservative movement, which in the 1960s began to attack ''liberals'' as self-interested, pedantic advocates of ''big government.
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Think about it: Tony Stark is a brilliant but self-interested prick who, after a heart injury and the loss of a friend, eventually learns how to be a moderately selfless superhero.
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Volcker, 91, told The New York Times that he feared the skill and reputation of the U.S. government has been corroded by self-interested elites shaping law through lobbying and campaign donations.
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When the most powerful man in the world is a study in lawlessness, Tarantino's self-interested anti-heroes are a galaxy away from the kind of idealism we miss in our movies.
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Mr. Obama's advisers have long argued that the opening with Cuba was bound to succeed and become irreversible once American citizens and businesses had a self-interested financial reason to back it.
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The voters, calling themselves Voters Not Politicians, quite literally seek to take redistricting away from the hands of self-interested politicians who draw lines to help their own chances at re-election.
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Relying on a self-interested inner circle and abrogating the views of seasoned professionals, as Johnson did, will inexorably lead to myopic and ill-informed decision making, he concluded in his book.
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For example, while disclosure is the traditional approach to managing conflicts of interest, empirical research shows that people often become even more self-interested in their actions after they disclose a conflict.
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"It's so unfortunate -- despite the warnings from the IPCC special report -- that we are stuck in our own self-interested agendas here in this process," Tuvalu's Sopoaga said of the UN report.
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A lot of Americans now believe the US should act like a traditional power, which is to say more self-interested and less concerned with the fate of other regions and nations.
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It will not break alliances: Europe is hardly about to embrace a broken, corrupt Russia, and China's neighbors are simultaneously drawn to its immense wealth and repelled by its self-interested ambitions.
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These international organizations should advance the interests of member states and their citizens, not perpetuate systems that disproportionately benefit some members over others or serve a narrow elite of self-interested leaders.
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How he juggles America's — and his own — competing mix of enchantment, disappointment and self-interested realism about China will help determine the future of the relationship and the future of the globe.
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May's idea that her opponents are merely playing self-interested political "games" is a classic populist trope, one that suggests that constitutional democracy is really an obstacle standing between people and leader.
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The bill does not abolish the sugar program nor hurt farmers, contrary to the claims of the self-interested processors who profit by the millions and billions from the program each year.
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Silicon Valley has recently become obsessed with basic income for reasons simultaneously generous and self-interested, as a palliative for the societal turbulence its inventions might unleash.
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Here's the self-interested one: Bees help pollinate 21990% of the world's food, and bumblebees, of which Franklin's bumblebee is (or was) one, pollinate everything from tomatoes to cranberries and blueberries and melons.
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The ferocious antagonism was less a reasonable critique of an imperfect scheme than a self-interested bid to squish his presidency, gratifying the incandescent Republican base even if doing so harmed the nation.
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Two, we're going to look away because it's too painful and guys like me are just a bunch of jokers that are self-interested, that aren't actually going to move the country forward.
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On the right, François Fillon's careless approach to public money (he hired his wife for a non-job) epitomized the self-interested disdain for the rules which has so corroded the establishment's legitimacy.
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The question now is, how can we direct the self-interested businesses that will undoubtedly power entrepreneurial expansion, growth, and innovation in space toward the shared, long term health of the space commons?
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In other words, making art can never be purely self-interested because, like voting Republican when you live at the poverty line, doing so cuts against a portion of your own self-interests.
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For a party that prides itself on patriotism, as Republicans have for decades, it keeps getting harder to justify what certainly appears like a self-interested embrace of a dangerous and threatening regime.
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Last year's well-received live action adaptation of "Cinderella", directed by Sir Kenneth Branagh, suggested that the stepmother has suffered her own romantic disappointments and consequently pushes her daughters to be self-interested.
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While democratic societies have rules to protect the vulnerable and foster competition and choice because they are based on recognizing value in human life, Facebook's motives are 2120% self-interested and profit-driven.
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But finding a non-vested expert to give an impartial assessment of complex network routing algorithms conjoined to such a self-interested and, frankly, anarchical industry is another characteristic challenge of the space.
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Volcker, 91, told The New York Times that he feared the the skill and reputation of the U.S. government has been corroded by self-interested elites shaping law through lobbying and campaign donations.
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Like its predecessor, it is consumed with the past, and with the ways in which secrets buried over time are excavated and interpreted—misinterpreted, inevitably—by the well-meaning, if self-interested, present.
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And no one denies that much of the change now is self-interested: The surge of refugee children in 2014 resulted in President Obama's request to Congress for $3.7 billion in emergency assistance.
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In other words, Mr. Leno's objection to the eBay resale was arguably a rationally self-interested act in that the resale impeded his ability to appear selfless to others and, even, to himself.
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But they also have several reasons — some that reflect a genuine desire to help the party, and some that are more self-interested — for not wanting to declare an open rebellion against Pelosi.
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To be sure, the rules of recusal that bind lower federal court judges do not technically apply to Supreme Court justices — at least according to the self-interested interpretation of the justices themselves.
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"The tech companies are so self-interested and self-absorbed that they're focusing on how their legal shield may be pierced rather than how they shield children from abuse and exploitation," he said.
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And if not for the last-minute (and arguably self-interested) defection of Senator Edmund Ross of Kansas, Johnson would have been cast from office, the first president to be impeached and removed.
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In his public statements, Mr. Trump appeared to adopt the Russian leader's self-interested theory that someone else was behind the hacking of the Democratic National Committee's servers in the last presidential election.
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Self-interested elites want to quash the rebellion because they instinctively know that Jefferson was right: If they do, then the encroachments on the people's rights that sparked it will be permanently established.
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In such a context Google's nakedly self-interested critique of EU privacy rights was lent a learned, regionally seasoned dressing of nuanced academic concern, thanks to the outsiders doing time on its platform.
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But Democrats were already brushing off the party switch, saying Van Drew was making the calculation purely based on politics and voters would see right through his self-interested motivations in November 2020.
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Here's where things get interesting: Shareholders said in their brief opposing dismissal that they didn't need to show directors were too self-interested to respond to a demand on the Section 14 claim.
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Public choice economics is an approach that asks how special interests can seek "rents," or income unrelated to economic productivity, by getting self-interested bureaucrats and government agencies to regulate in their favor.
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Yet some men do, especially powerful men, who are protected by privilege and a crew of self-interested enablers who don't want to lose their access to power by calling out the obvious.
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Today, the reigning ideology is that the people are wise, and elites are dangerously self-interested, and so our systems are built, at least superficially, to empower the people and foil the elites.
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And his films certainly seem to offer some hints in that direction: They frequently fetishize service members and military hardware, and they tend to portray governments and bureaucracy as ineffectual, self-interested, and incompetent.
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But, as opposed to Lisa — who is consistent in her self-interested management style of her own idiots' lives and careers on Vanderpump Rules — Lohan is unpredictable (though her accent seems to have stabilized).
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When you start to say there shouldn't be any billionaires, that you have some cap on wealth or something like that, that goes-- beyond what I think-- and you could say I'm self-interested.
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It's interesting to me that he's playing a guy who awakens self-interested white men to the real problem of race while also crassly manipulating racism to tell a more panoramic story about America.
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Self-interested groups intimidating voters at the polls is also an important issue in this, and with numerous polling sites across the country, the only way to know about this is through election monitoring.
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Not only had a previous office relationship between him and an ex-coworker imploded, but, I explained as gently as possible, making a move on this new colleague seemed slightly self-interested to me.
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It's rough going, especially when Nolfi tries to make the case that Bernard is a revolutionary figure when he mostly comes across as a self-interested entrepreneur with politics that sound like movie lines.
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To the contrary: "Our job, if we take our job seriously, is not to say, 'Well, it's a horrible time so you guys get to do horrible mergers or self-interested mergers,'" Baron said.
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One of the tech industry's favorite lines of defense with respect to upholding repair monopolies is "safety," but advocates have long challenged the extent to which this claim may be overblown and self-interested.
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Hunted by czarist police, the Bundists would be crushed not by their enemies but by the far smaller band of jealous, self-interested Bolsheviks, who had other ideas about how to pursue a revolution.
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Writ large, however, the entire movement of which those efforts are part has operated on the assumption that teachers are too self-interested and poorly trained to know how to make education work better.
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Earlier this month, the NTIA signed off on ICANN's plan, which adds strong safeguards to prevent capture or manipulation by any single entity, whether it be a government, company or another self-interested party.
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Entities structured by corporate interests to role-play 'neutral' advice or ensure 'transparent' oversight — or indeed to promulgate self-interested propaganda dressed in the garb of intellectual expertise — are almost always a stacked trick.
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And if that argument doesn't convince you, Mr. Rugh and Mr. Hall propose a more self-interested appeal for the country's coming debate over what to do about undocumented immigrants: Homeowners need Hispanic buyers.
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The public conversation around the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program has gotten confused, with everyone agreeing to pretend, for various self-interested reasons, that President Trump actually wants a DACA solution, and fast.
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Other US-led successful public health campaigns, from tobacco harm reduction to HIV/AIDS, saved countless millions of lives, all in the face of years of denial and quasi-religious opposition from self-interested groups.
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Ironically, many in the Middle East would have more sympathy with a US foreign policy that was unapologetically self-interested, rather than one built on self-interest but proceeds to lecture others about human rights.
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" Paul Begala: Boomers, worst generation ever Sixteen years ago I wrote in Esquire, "The baby boomers are the most self-centered, self-seeking, self-interested, self-absorbed, self-indulgent, self-aggrandizing generation in American history.
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No matter how you slice it, Trump's careless and self-interested fraternization with the Putin regime signals naivete about Russia and leaves him in a vulnerable position through which he could sacrifice our nation's security.
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But self-interested politicians will only support a policy that is politically efficient – the additional benefit is focused on a small group of voters while the additional burden is diffused over a much larger group.
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They should explain that the incentives created by the lower tax rate will prompt self-interested companies to invest more and that the ensuing competition to attract workers will force companies to pay higher wages.
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"Nobody's ever seen Jupiter the way we will"One might ask why, as self-interested beings with a world's worth of problems here on Earth, we should bother studying a planet as hostile as Jupiter.
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Perhaps Peretti and other bosses can also take a cue from their workers in how they see their own overlords—not as "partners" or "clients" but as a self-interested class that must be fought.
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Moro became the avatar of reaction against 13 years of Workers' Party dominance at the federal level, an attractive protagonist in a national melodrama that pitted brash, young reformers against a bloated, self-interested state.
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While writing on corporate culture and politics, Mr. Jay became interested in public choice, a branch of political theory that treats voters, politicians and civil servants as self-interested agents and analyzes their behavior accordingly.
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Instead it leaves critical moral judgments with real consequences in the tenuous hands of self-interested economic actors whose guiding light is the maximization of their own benefit, without consideration for the effects on others.
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When choosing between two suitably qualified candidates to take charge of a company that is performing well, a board is likely to pick a leader who does not appear to be egotistic and self-interested.
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It shows how self-interested actors — in this case Donald Trump, but in other instances it might be companies hiding data about the quality of their products, or safety-related information — can "win" by stonewalling.
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When choosing between two suitably qualified candidates to take charge of a company that is performing well, a board is likely to pick a leader who does not appear to be egotistical and self-interested.
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If anything, the paper said, the "illusory expectations" raised by the Business Roundtable and other proponents of stakeholder governance will allow directors and officers to get away with managerial inefficiencies and even self-interested decisionmaking.
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Lowrey in particular is hotheaded in a way that would be troubling if he were played by anyone other than Will Smith: bloodthirsty, reckless, and self-interested to the point where he's almost entirely unlikable.
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From Maine to California and in states and municipalities in between, voters chose to put Country Over Party and to loudly demand that public elections should serve voters and not the self-interested political parties.
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But the state court decisions, invoking the broader protections of state constitutions, offer another tool to fight back against self-interested politicians who craft unfair election rules "with surgical precision" to keep themselves in power.
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I had actually begun to think about this much before, because I had been radicalized by Amazon's conflict with Hachette over e-book pricing and so I saw this and it's all self-interested, right?
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But aside from the acrimonious, cynical and self-interested nature of Washington, there's the fact that the Senate is built on seniority – even if you're 71 and even if you were your party's former presidential nominee.
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SLYLY and without warning, on January 2nd Republican congressmen announced as their first major initiative of the new year a scheme so crassly self-interested as to suggest they had learned nothing from the old one.
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In other words, when we feel like we've done enough to maintain our image of ourselves as good, moral people, we can turn our attention to goals that are self-interested or even unkind, she says.
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Models incorporating increasing returns to scale explain how one firm among many can rise to become a monopolist, or how the actions of self-interested individuals can transform one town into a megacity while another withers.
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On the other hand, he has a very public platform and I'm sure he has an opinion and if everybody takes the self-interested view, the world doesn't get to hear the opinions of its leaders.
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Going by initial excerpts in New York and British GQ, it portrays Trump as an addled narcissist and describes his inner circle as a bunch of self-interested dolts convinced he would lose the 2016 election.
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There has always been an ugly contradiction between the inspirational ideals of liberty and openness this country was founded upon, and the self-interested prejudices of the majority of those fortunate enough to count themselves Americans.
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Of course DDG has its own self-interested iron in the fire here — suggesting, as it is, that "Google is influencing what you click" — given it offers an anti-tracking alternative to the eponymous Google search.
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Even though our founders recognized the self-interested nature of people, they also knew that for our experiment in self-government to work, it would require an enlightened citizenry committed to liberty and maintaining the republic.
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Whereas hockey myth-making has portrayed Russian players as robotic, or as self-interested divas, Red Army does well in illustrating the Russian Five and their goaltender as sympathetic individuals with six different points of view.
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"Our outlook and the facts have been distorted and obscured by the naysayers, self-interested critics and publicity seekers," Dauman said on a call with analysts following the results as he was questioned over his strategy.
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Scant media coverage has explained how culture is created and supported by self-interested media corporations looking to make money from such "entertainment," instead of providing leadership on how a civil culture can exist without violence.
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Corporations were using illegal tactics to stop unionization, tactics unheard-of in other countries, and new hires at the biggest companies were often required to watch anti-labor propaganda depicting unions as greedy and self-interested.
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"We can't let the whims of a few self-interested West Village residents void the needs of hundreds of thousands of transit commuters across the city," Joe Cutrufo, the communications director of Transportation Alternatives, told amNY.
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"That helps us show the court that we have standing, that we're not doing it in a self-interested way and that we are trying to be representative of concerned citizens," she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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That was sincere, but also self-interested—it praised the quiet virtue of staying in one's place and doing one's duty, as he did, adhering solemnly and even joylessly to the dharma or teachings of the Buddha.
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Conservative women "are allowed to believe there is a difference between women and men, female and male, and that those differences are real, not a false cultural construct imposed by a self-interested, manipulative patriarchy," Scanlon writes.
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Attorneys general suing Big Pharma recently unearthed a database that both the corporations and the government—each for their own self-interested reasons—fought to keep sealed, called the Automation of Reports and Consolidated Orders System (ARCOS).
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" The Ministry of Culture, meanwhile, "which retained a sizable part of the takings, suddenly began looking at the once-detested artists with a self-interested kindness now that they had become a prime source of hard currency.
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Many national leaders simply cannot conceive this partner -- whom they had for so long regarded as relentlessly competent, if a little self-interested -- can genuinely be on the verge of such a massive act of self-sabotage.
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So as the hearing began Tuesday, Barr tried to offer some assurances and commitments — saying he almost surely wouldn't fire Mueller, and making clear he believed self-interested presidential interference with an investigation could raise constitutional concerns.
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Abdu Sharkawy, a doctor and expert at the University of Toronto in Canada, wrote late Friday that the disease is indeed dangerous but that the often self-interested measures to contain are in some cases proving worse.
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He complained that the American media has consistently misconstrued the way Russia works, presenting marginal opportunists and self-interested businessmen with no real link to the Kremlin as state-controlled agents working on orders from Mr. Putin.
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Rather, tech is viewed as elitist, exclusive, self-interested and out of touch, as manifested by the Google bus protests and the inflammatory open letter a tech entrepreneur addressed to San Francisco city officials condemning the city's homeless.
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Some presidential candidates think the answer is for America itself to throw off the constraints of a rules-based global order and match China for self-interested ruthlessness (Donald Trump fancies punitive trade tariffs of up to 45%).
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Others are pushing to change the Point of Obligation for complying with the RFS — moving it from oil refiners to fuel retailers — a move suggested by self-interested parties and thwarted by dozens of companies and major organizations.
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Ethereum would allow developers to program not only smart contracts, but entire "Decentralised Autonomous Organisations" (DAOs)—entities that, like bitcoin, do not need centralised management and operate beyond the direct control of self-interested institutions such as governments.
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This November, voters in Colorado, Michigan, Missouri and Utah will decide whether to create redistricting commissions for their states, taking the power to draw lines away from self-interested politicians and making the process fairer and more independent.
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And over the last few years the Koch brothers, two of the world's wealthiest men, have tried to cultivate a worldly, civic-oriented image to counter the Democratic Party's attacks on them as self-interested corporatist puppet masters.
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What she sees — what she shows — is both a thriller and epic, a tale of conspiratorial, self-interested scheming that is at the same time a saga of large historical forces and epochal shifts in power and ideology.
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This week: A global problem + time and cost dissonance This just might be the world's greatest collective action problem, which is when rational, self-interested decisions of individuals make the circumstances of the group worse, and vice versa.
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"Contrary to the rank speculation from various groups, including self-interested trade associations and even people associated with Tennessee Tech, the results and the underlying data are valid and worthy of consideration," said Jon Toomey, the company's lobbyist.
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In the century since her execution by a French firing squad for spying for the Germans, Mata Hari has been depicted as a self-interested courtesan, a cultural appropriator, a proto-feminist or an innocent victim of wartime passions.
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Solving a set of equations that describes a market, conceived of as populated by predictably self-interested individuals who face various constraints, yields that equilibrium—the prices that balance supply and demand, say, and the level of welfare generated.
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Enables self-interested decisions When power is overconcentrated in a few players, executives have the latitude to take actions that are comfortable for themselves, but not necessarily consistent with the good of the organization or the people in it.
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But any such admission of moral complexity, let alone an operational acknowledgment of its policy ramifications, clearly can't coexist with the lazy and self-interested caricature of gun violence as a regrettable yet immutable side effect of spiritual warfare.
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In turn, Amazon, which dominates the book market, could, up front, make self-interested commitments in local school programs and, as Eric Klinenberg, a sociologist at New York University, advocates, in public libraries, our most vibrant, multipurpose community hubs.
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But that work has also inspired some of her fiercest critics, in people who saw her calls for the resignation of the former Senator Al Franken — he was accused by eight women of sexual harassment — as self-interested posturing.
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If Mr. Cohen's latest version of events is proved true, Mr. Trump was publicly offering a conciliatory and possibly self-interested policy gesture to Moscow as he continued to seek a business deal that would require the Kremlin's blessing.
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Congress should have latitude to specify that "faithful execution" in some agencies dealing with especially sensitive matters or special expertise may require extra insulation, even from removal for policy disagreements, to guard against self-interested presidential pressure and manipulation.
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Some of this novel's best moments have him sparring with Mary, Henry's Catholic daughter with Katherine, pressing her to swear obedience to her father rather than risk being used by those seeking to undo Henry's self-interested English Reformation.
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However it's the opaque tech-fuelled targeting enabled by ad platforms like Facebook that's far more problematic for democracies as it allows vested interests to generate self-interested pressure remotely — including from abroad — while remaining entirely shielded from view.
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Visitors can pick up jobs from First Order officers, Resistance agents, and other self-interested personnel who reward careful exploration of the park with credits (non-spendable in Batuu, unfortunately) and in-app cosmetic rewards like outfits or titles.
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The argument that Thaler and Sunstein wanted to start — and, in a sense, are still conducting — are with libertarian-leaning economists who do not understand why rational self-interested beings would need others to tell them what they ought to do.
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But he would also give the GOP something it desperately needs: an opportunity to purge its ranks of scores and scores of self-interested operatives and advisers who treat campaigns as opportunities to soak candidates and build networks of future clients.
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McCabe has been trying to portray himself as corruptly and wrongly persecuted by President Trump for political and self-interested reasons, suggesting Trump hopes to discredit potential testimony from him in special counsel Robert Mueller's probe of obstruction of justice.
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Barr marries Trump's preference for appointees who toe the line in the press — current Acting Attorney General Whitaker is Exhibit A – and his self-interested need for a Justice Department sympathetic to using executive powers to kneecap a special counsel investigation.
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As the top 20 percent becomes more isolated and entrenched, reforms designed to open opportunities for those in the middle and on the bottom "can all run into the solid wall of rational, self-interested upper middle class resistance," Reeves argues.
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He blamed Trump for making public House Republicans&apos initial memo about the FISA applications, a move by Trump that the congressman called "nakedly political and self-interested, and designed to to (sic) interfere with the Special Counsel&aposs investigation."
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Instead, in an interview with the Wall Street Journal last week, he rewrote history to portray Sessions as a self-interested climber who endorsed him because of his big crowds: When they say he endorsed me, I went to Alabama.
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Your decision to publicly acknowledge the lack of progress on denuclearization will probably not put the brakes on the momentum behind the Kim train -- we assess that other countries will consciously continue to recouple with him for self-interested reasons.
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His swift embrace of depravity — and the self-interested silence of those who see through his ruse — gives "The Captain" a distressing inevitability that can make the viewer feel helpless, as if the seductiveness of fascism were stronger than its terrors.
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When answers to these questions were correlated with political attitudes, Howe found that indifferent feelings toward democracy are interlaced with a broader set of self-interested and antisocial attitudes that are present among a substantial minority of the U.S. population.
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Tyson's comments were poorly received, as other online personalities called him insensitive and self-interested: But it does tend to do really well with...certain audiences, and also it feels good to be able to ~~know more~~ than normal people.
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The fact is in most of these skirmishes over net metering, there are two self-interested parties battling — utilities and conservative business groups on one side, solar companies and advocates on the other — and the side with the most power wins.
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The episode raises the question of the obligations of a White House counsel when he realizes that he is the lawyer for a fundamentally dishonest president who is ready to violate the criminal law to achieve self-interested or political ends.
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Wolff says that Kushner represents "liberal globalism," though he doesn't offer much to back it up, instead repeating Bannon's pet theory that Kushner's behavior shows how glaringly hypocritical the "true and deeply self-interested face of liberal globalism" actually was.
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To many conservatives, the uranium story is particularly emblematic of the self-interested and profiteering approach they believe the Clintons have always brought to politics — a narrative they fed for years when Bill Clinton was president, and then later during Mrs.
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"Trump's basic argument is we live in a world where nothing is on the level, everybody is self-interested, nobody is better than him and everybody plays the same dirty game," said David Axelrod, who led Barack Obama's presidential campaigns.
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It was a stance that was born both out of one reading of a multivalent Jewish tradition that championed such values and of a self-interested Jewish judgment that such liberal values were in the best interests of the Jewish community.
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Voter ignorance wouldn't matter much if a democracy were able to weave individual votes into collective political wisdom, the way a market weaves the self-interested buy-and-sell decisions of individual actors into a prudent collective allocation of resources.
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The problem is that we equate all deception with self-interested lies — lies such as misrepresenting yourself, manipulating people for your own gain, taking credit for a great idea your coworker had, stealing money or office supplies, or cooking the books.
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A game of 'uncertain claim vs self-interested counter claim', as competing interests duke it out to try to land a knock-out blow in the game of 'fake news and/or total fiction', serves no useful purpose in a civilized society.
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It was lambasted for its lack of diversity in its first season, and has been both praised and condemned by feminists for its sex scenes, its attitude toward abortion and its portrayal of many of its characters as self-interested and spoiled.
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But from the 18th century on, the language of selfish, self-interested behavior becomes a predominant language, at least in the West, which creates the notion that the central role of government is to maximize wealth, maximize prosperity, and increase standards of living.
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Science isn't cheap, and the money has to come from somewhere, which is how we end up with self-interested industries subtly controlling and corrupting researchers, institutions, and agencies that are supposed to be doing honest and vital work for the public good.
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Jun gives a physically open, natural performance that works as a lovely counterpoint to Haemi's cryptic actions — she has an unseen cat, peels an invisible tangerine — while Yoo invests Jongsu with a reserve that suggests social awkwardness that can seem self-interested.
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Like many of the Tea Party candidates who swept into Congress during the Obama administration, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez ran against her party's establishment, arguing that its members were self-interested and disconnected from the realities of the voters they were sworn to serve.
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That indifference to the way things have always been done has energized Mr. Trump's core supporters, who cheer his efforts to destroy political correctness, take on smug elites and smash a self-interested system that, in their view, has shafted everyday Americans.
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The social liberalism he championed was the rotten and self-interested sort, a liberalism of male and upper-class privilege, in which the strong and beautiful and rich take their pleasure at the expense of the vulnerable and poor and not-yet-born.
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They were the inspiration of reformers who wanted to take power away from political machines and corporate interests, and return it to the people, who were believed to be wiser and more capable than the bosses, because they were less self-interested.
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In turn, private companies that sell any shares at all — including selling shares directly to venture capitalists or allowing employees to sell shares on secondary markets — will no longer only have their valuations set by a small clubby group of self-interested investors.
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It seems dramatically less productive to shout at a billionaire who is openly calling for higher estate taxes and capital gains taxes to shrink his own fortune than to target the bulk of billionaires with much more self-interested political projects in mind.
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That's the right thing to do for the democratic system, and it's also the smart thing to do for self-interested GOP players who want to ensure the blame for the party's defeat goes where it rightfully belongs: to Donald Trump himself.
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JPMorgan was "self-interested" and "conflicted" in its dealings with Good Technology, which led the start-up to sell itself to BlackBerry in 2015 at a "fire-sale" price of $425 million, the shareholders said in the amended lawsuit filed in Delaware Chancery Court.
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The first is rather bleak: that the China led by Xi Jinping, its assertive president since 2013, has shown itself to be a mercantilist, arrogant and stubborn power, too self-interested and suspicious of American intentions to be swayed by appeals to its better nature.
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But a witness' reticence is no excuse for lazy or self-interested questions—of which there are sure to be many on Wednesday when Mueller testifies before the House Judiciary Committee, chaired by Jerrold Nadler, and the House Intelligence Committee, chaired by Adam Schiff.
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The motives are both altruistic — supplying funds that local governments do not have in the interests of saving a joint inheritance — and self-interested — the companies clearly understand that the more closely they associate with masterpieces of history, the more they bask in their glow.
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In his letter firing Mr. Comey, the F.B.I. director, Mr. Trump made a point of noting that Mr. Comey had three times told the president that he was not under investigation, Mr. Trump's way of pre-emptively denying that his action was self-interested.
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Trump's intimated quid pro quo, besides being criminally stupid and self-interested, seemed to add a corollary to the Nixon Doctrine: The nature of a U.S. partner's conflict or its larger importance doesn't matter as much as the partner's willingness to kiss the ring.
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Our president is sufficiently undisciplined and self-sabotaging, sufficiently incapable of normal self-interested self-control, that you cannot dismiss the possibility that his public rhetoric on Russia was effectively a weird sort of advertisement for crimes or blackmail being perpetrated behind the scenes.
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It's not an overstatement to say it will have an effect on our very perception of capitalism as an ultimately benevolent or purely self-interested force in America, particularly in the eyes of our younger workforce participants, who are more idealistic than their predecessors.
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UK transport company FirstGroup PLC has hit out at activist shareholder Coast Capital Management for trying to replace most of its board and has put out a defiant notice to the stock market calling it "opportunistic, self-interested player that is only focused on short-term gains".
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And social media platforms like Facebook have, ironically enough, made it easier for shadowy agenda-pushers to deploy astroturfing techniques to mask and pass off their self-interested lobbying as grassroots activism — and thus to try to shift public opinion without being caught in the act.
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The Center for Food Safety and four other groups filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on Monday claiming the agency is illegally allowing self-interested food and chemical manufacturers to determine which chemical additives in food are safe.
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For a team whose image has lately been pocked by franchise pageboy Mark Davis' let's say self-interested decision to relocated the Raiders to Las Vegas, Lynch's return might well be the only thing, short of a Super Bowl, that could sustain the goodwill of Oakland fans.
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This plays well to Mr. Trump's premise that a robust era of American job growth awaits, if only the nation selects a president with the audacity to set aside the niceties of trade agreements and begin acting like a self-interested superpower, dictating the terms of commerce.
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"There's no question that Iran's regional behavior has been intrusive and self interested as they've tried to deepen and expand their involvement in Syria to be able to advance Iranian interests, in particular to make sure they maintain a direct linkage to Hezbollah in Lebanon," Pascual said.
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The thing that sparked the book was a self-interested examination of my own life, and of so many of my contemporaries who also had these independent existences that were full of work and friends and commitments and passions and ambition and achievements and disappointment and failures.
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The system defined by the so-called Treaty of Detroit, the labor-management agreements struck between Walter Reuther and the Big Three automakers, was well-intentioned but also self-interested, a necessary-seeming concession to political trends that might have threatened corporate independence and profits even more.
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Whatever the state of (non)negotiations with the Taliban, governance in Afghanistan cannot persist in the condition of paralysis of the past two years or the rapacious, predatory, and self-interested behavior of Afghan power brokers going back to the era of former President Hamid Karzai.
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That's how we got the strange spectacle of CNN's Jim Acosta, ostensibly a nonpartisan reporter, hectoring the White House's Stephen Miller last week with the claim that Emma Lazarus's poem about the "huddled masses" means that the U.S. cannot be self-interested in screening new arrivals.
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If you base your political and social systems on the idea that the autonomous self-interested individual is the basic unit of society, then you will wind up with an individualistic culture that widens the maneuvering room between people but shreds the relationships and community between people.
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The better, although not perfect, solution is to take map drawing away from self-interested politicians and put it in the hands of an independent or bipartisan commission, as more than a dozen states have done, helping to make races both more competitive and less partisan.
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Those policies and the dozens of other military interventions initiated by the United States in the years since 1945 made clear to Europeans that such an aggressive, self-interested approach was outmoded and could never lead to sustainable peace, only to more generations robbed of their futures.
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And a really enterprising confidant might have intimated that a sensational military operation could scan as a cynical effort to divert attention from impeachment, as well as an example of the same brand of self-interested autocracy with which the House's articles of impeachment charge the president.
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He describes them as unprepared, ignorant, self-interested or simply blindsided by the disturbing situations they found themselves in, and led by a commander-in-chief who refused to listen to career intelligence officials on threats posed by North Korea "because Vladimir Putin had told him" differently.
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Some also argue that it's not fair to look at political failures through a purely generational lens, arguing that plenty of boomers (including Warren and Sanders) have long argued for more forward-thinking, less self-interested policies but failed to win enough power to enact them.
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And we're supposed to take it on trust from the same self-interested companies that the unknown quantity of malicious ads being fenced on their platforms is but a teeny tiny drop in the overall content ocean they're serving up so hey why can't you just stop overreacting?
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In 2016, Clinton seemed to be on the side of accepting donations from anyone who would give them, leading to attacks from Trump about her family foundation's work and her paid speeches before audiences of bankers—even as he soaked up dark money donations from self-interested financial titans.
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After all, the Greek play is about a powerful demagogue who trades in overblown and exaggerated speech in order to justify his own ends at any cost, who makes those lower in wealth or stature feel special, and who cajoles others into carrying out his self-interested plans.
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Instead, the RCGP's statement focuses on shoring-up an outmoded and financially self-interested status quo which solely works to the benefit of a limited number of partner GPs, rather than celebrating a scientific achievement which has the potential to improve the lives of patients and clinicians globally.
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"These national security considerations were cast aside by President Trump, whose decision to declassify the Nunes memo — which misrepresented and distorted these applications — over the fervent opposition of the Department of Justice, was nakedly political and self-interested, and designed to interfere with the special counsel's investigation," he said.
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Under the theory that Mr. Trump's legal team advanced, the Justice Department and the F.B.I. work for the president and therefore a president can order investigations opened or closed, fire prosecutors, grant pardons or otherwise use his constitutional power even if it seems overtly self-interested or political.
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Here, once again, the president who is a demagogue — who is fully prepared to flout well-established, vitally important expectations about how American presidents faithfully execute the laws — can safely bring self-interested, self-protective pressure on the Department of Justice and undermine its public standing and authority.
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Chinese infrastructure projects on the continent bring some jobs to men in poaching hotspots like Kenya (and benefit the Chinese economy and long-term interests, especially in extraction), but Chinese aid projects are opaque and often self-interested; China lags in providing direct health aid or poverty alleviation.
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This self-interested minority of our community would do well to remember that many of the same conservative activists who are looking to destroy affirmative action are also seeking to curb legal immigration to the United States, as seen in the horrific RAISE Act being backed by the Trump administration.
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When leaders cannot (or will not) persuade citizens that their long-term interest lies in dialogue and consensus with other groups and nations, politicians find it even more difficult to do the right thing; they may be carried away by the forces that divide society into ever smaller self-interested groups.
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The government has found a group of vulnerable people it can blame its own failures on, but we shouldn't lose sight of the fact that the problems in this country are the fault of a self-interested Conservative Party and people and companies who aren't paying their share of tax.
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And now Trump himself, for instinctive and opportunistic reasons, has taken up a crude version of their argument, jawboning Jerome Powell to discourage rate increases (a self-interested position, but also the correct one) and trying to elevate Moore in part because he currently shares the White House's dovish line.
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Editorial Weeks after being described by Donald Trump as a "nut job," James Comey on Thursday deftly recast his confrontation with the president as a clash between the legal principles at the foundation of American democracy, and a venal, self-interested politician who does not recognize, let alone uphold, them.
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Coming from me this may sound self-interested, but please try to look over my obvious and admitted conflict to see that the press, even with all its flaws — particularly those exposed during this election — is one of the last lines of defense against corruption and a slide toward autocracy.
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So it does seem that Comey's letter could be a fairly routine notification delivered to Congress, sent either for the simple purpose of updating his previous testimony or for the more self-interested purpose of shielding himself and the FBI from the political criticism that would result if he said nothing.
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Perhaps the Murdochs had no choice but to oust Ailes given how high-profile the claims against him are, and perhaps they have a self-interested reason to do so — they've reportedly had long-running disagreements with Ailes and have been looking for an excuse to get rid of him.
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Instead, he stands back, using McGraw-Hill language but pairing it with vicious, cool timing and framing to expose the history of the highest court of the United States as one smeared with banal, capitalist corruption and what amounts to petty, unforced treason on the part of self-interested, self-aggrandizing men.
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But as he launched his presidential bid last June, Trump flipped the script and struck a decisively populist tone --pledging take on very same self-interested maneuvers of businesses that he also employed -- and vowed to compel U.S. businesses to manufacture in the U.S. and slammed the influence of special interests in Washington.
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" But Rooney was quick to point the finger at the other side of the Capitol, saying before he was elected he was always told that the House was the "narrow self-interested body, and the Senate looks after the globe and I think we just saw that it might be the other way.
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" The senator said the era for global success of democracy has shifted to "a time in which the seductions of authoritarian rule find favor with many; when self-interested leadership excuses naked aggression with weak rationalizations; when ethnic grievances haunt the old and religious fanaticism fires the minds of the misguided young.
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It is a rightist, nativist, nationalist and, yes, "völkisch" reaction against globalization, against migration, against miscegenation, against the disappearance of borders and the blurring of genders, against the half-tones of political correctness, against Babel, against the stranger and the other, against the smug self-interested consensus of the urban, global elite.
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"The industries and companies, through their corporate lawyers, are renting the state's seal in order to make it look like their self-interested arguments are being made by Scott Pruitt on behalf of a state," said David Doniger, director of the Climate and Clean Air Program at the Natural Resources Defense Counsel.
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But view his self-interested scummery and defiant ignorance through the filter of worshipful regard that American culture and political media applies to rich elites, and from the perspective of venal people who wish to be similarly unencumbered by any broader responsibility, and all that proudly idiotic crudity can pass as a worldview.
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With roughly three months until the Philadelphia convention, the voices among the Democratic elite clamoring for Sanders to leave the race or "tone down" his message are arguably acting with self-interested ignorance of history -- of how Reagan's mirror-image challenge reinvented the Republican Party to dominate American politics in the latter 20th century.
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Except if you look at it from a racial standpoint, this doesn't, as a self-interested argument for opposition to gun control, make much sense, because white Americans tend to live in more secure neighborhoods and tend to be more affluent and tend to be less likely by far to be victims of crime.
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More recently Google announced a long term plan to involve its Chromium browser engine in developing a new open standard for privacy — sparking concerns it's trying to both kick the can on privacy protection and muddy the waters by shaping and pushing self-interested definitions which align with its core data-mining business interests.
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Schultz, who began the film as a mostly self-interested broker, has developed a moral center after witnessing the horrors of Candyland (like seeing a slave fed to dogs as punishment for attempting escape) and by the time Calvin offers him cake, the bounty hunter would rather shoot the plantation owner rather than shake his hand.
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The worst of the French Canadians, a true villain A buffoon Many of the female characters in Twin Peaks demonstrate a lack of resolve that could be interpreted as moral turmoil, an attempt to do what's best in a given situation, but Nancy's motivations are largely self-interested without the follow-through of an actual villain.
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That desire may exist: Some of Cruz's delegates will be more moderate than he is, some of them will worry that he's a hopeless general-election candidate, some of them will be party men or women who find his self-interested ambition off-putting, some of them will be #NeverTrump types who actually preferred Kasich or Rubio.
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No, she names and shames her villains, from big banks who push for their own deregulation, to self-interested and moneyed politicians who cut their own taxes at the expense of the rest of us, to hate-mongers on Fox News and in the White House who peddle racism and misogyny to stir up an angry, bigoted Republican base.
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In the complicated world of music licensing there is a disturbing trend – even though there is clear evidence that publishers are exercising market power and consumers are paying more – many self-interested parties are currently lobbying the Department of Justice ("DOJ") to loosen the consent decree in order to give it more options to raise licensing fees.
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Like its removed political oversights, Infinite's deliberations over the nature of games and the passivity or impassivity of writer and player feel largely self-interested—its two central preoccupations, simplistic moralizing and prodding at narrative form, leave you convinced that rather than moral, social, or human issues, Infinite is interested in sophomoric debates about video games.
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The failure of his efforts to deprive millions of Americans of health care coverage, the continuing investigation of his administration by the F.B.I., court challenges to his immigration and environmental edicts, and a new willingness by self-interested allies to desert him all suggest he is not immune to the forces that have felled bad presidents before him.
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Even a hundred days into his Presidency, he had spent little time articulating how, exactly, he was planning to execute his proposed reforms, which included disciplining a self-interested oligarchy and negotiating an end to the five-year war with Russian-backed separatists in the eastern region of the Donbass, in which, to date, more than ten thousand people have been killed.
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As well as the obvious privacy risks to user data from unsecured web connections, from hackers or other types of snoopers, Google has also said it intends to flag unsecured connections in its popular Chrome browser — thereby potentially discouraging users from surfing to non-HTTPS websites in the first place, and providing a self-interested incentive to shift websites onto secure connections.
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Free-market advocates hold fast to justifications that amount to variations on the "invisible hand" theory of Adam Smith — that the economy is not a moral space, but one that relies on a free and fair market, self-interested (as opposed to selfish) actors and amoral (as opposed to immoral) calculation to arrive at the most efficient and innovative outcomes.
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I had a number of reasons to prefer Amy Coney Barrett, a federal appellate judge and former Notre Dame professor whom Trump reportedly (though who knows) was considering as a more base-pleasing alternative, but the purely journalistically self-interested one was that something random and interesting seemed likely to come up around her nomination, before or during the hearing.
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Neither the liberal state nor markets do enough to nourish or defend such virtues—the liberal state because it's not supposed to select one version of the good life over another, and markets because they "work" by treating investors and consumers as self-interested individuals, not as citizens who can restrain self-interest enough to sustain what used to be called a commonwealth.
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Likewise, when asked whether it is racist or "racially self-interested, which is not racist" for whites to want less immigration to help maintain their group's share of the population, over 295 percent of white Democrats with graduate degrees replied "racist" and close to half of minorities, compared with just an extremely small group of white Trump voters without degrees.
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Undaunted by their failure to affect any electoral outcomes, the coterie of thinkers and writers who have coalesced loosely around the "Never Trump" movement have staked their careers on the notion that Donald Trump is an aberration, a kind of eruption of atavistic "tribalism" from the prehistoric past, instead of the result of a historical narrative that's hiding in plain sight for less blatantly self-interested interlocutors.
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Given Comey's mishandling of the inquiry into Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE's email practices, there were reasons for the president to ask him to depart — reasons that were neither self-interested nor necessarily related to a foreign adversary.
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" And last year, a group made of the Center for Food Safety, Breast Cancer Prevention Partners, the Center for Science in the Public Interest, the Environmental Defense Fund, and the Environmental Working Group sued the FDA over the "secret GRAS system," calling it "a regulatory scheme in which potentially unsafe chemical substances can be added to food based on conclusions by self-interested food and chemical manufacturers.
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And while we're taking a look at how the federal government is currently failing us, and how we're reliant on the decision-making power of self-interested corporate leaders, it's worth pausing and thinking about the health risks faced by -- and in turn, the health risks that will be posed by -- the many American workers whose jobs don't involve plane travel and conferences, but still have to show up for work.
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The medical stuff is pretty self-explanatory—he claims WWE worked him too much when he was sick and that their doctor was incompetent—while his dissatisfaction with the natural flow of WWE's version of wrestling tended to fall into the same gripes everyone has with the storylines, a strong distaste for overpaid part-timers like the Rock, and a shade of self-interested promotion for one CM Punk.
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By its own measure, one of the country's major political parties went rogue decades ago and has set about systematically disenfranchising millions of Americans, put the greater part of the population under the thumb of a permanent ruling minority, and has now slipped any remaining traces of civic decency, cynically installing a man it knows to be a ranting incompetent in the White House, just to advance its own, completely self-interested ends.
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Amid prodding by my colleagues on these issues, he made only the vaguest of promises about firewalling himself off from his companies and investments, while constantly stressing that no clear conflict-of-interest laws govern the presidency, playing down the appearance of corruption as inconsequential and basically suggesting that he intends to continue the kind of seemingly self-dealing moments (photo ops with business partners, self-interested comments to foreign politicians) that have already cropped up during his transition.
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"These national security considerations were cast aside by President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE, whose decision to declassify the Nunes Memo — which misrepresented and distorted these applications — over the fervent opposition of the Department of Justice, was nakedly political and self-interested, and designed to to interfere with the Special Counsel's investigation," the lawmaker said.
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The limits of the presidency and public opinion are very real, but the massive speaking fees Clinton accepted from multinational corporations, the huge amounts of money Obama raised from Wall Street, the fundraisers they both attend for their personal Super PACs, and the ex-financiers both of them relied on as advisers all help explain, to Sanders and his supporters, why Clinton and Obama's agendas were so compromised, and why their dimmer view of the possibilities of American politics may be more than a little self-interested.
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Given its ability to prevent the scourge of VAD, Golden Rice could make contributions to human health on a par with the Salk polio vaccine but irrational, self-interested, relentless opposition to the testing and widespread availability of Golden Rice has been high on the agenda of activists like Greenpeace, which makes millions per year behemoth with offices in more than 40 countries, whose PR machine is focused on denying millions of children in the poorest nations the essential food nutrients they need to stave off blindness and death.
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Because the company's actions from all other angles show Apple consistently defending privacy rights in a big data ethics fight that's pitting Europe against a small number of powerful US adtech giants whose 'best' argument in defence of the unethical stuff they're doing is they need to 'keep up with China' — a country that neither respects human rights nor privacy… Zuckerberg urges privacy carve outs to compete with China These same self-interested adtech giants are now, of course, hard at work lobbying US lawmakers that big data is a tenet of tech faith — when it really doesn't have to be that way.
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Former FBI Director James ComeyJames Brien Comey85033 real problems Republicans need to address to win in 2020 Barr predicts progressive prosecutors will lead to 'more crime, more victims' James Comey shows our criminal justice system works as intended MORE rips President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE as "untethered to truth" and self-interested in his upcoming memoir, according to an Associated Press report.
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But then he doubled down again: I was struck during last season by the way that so many of the show's good liberal viewers were clearly rooting for Cersei Lannister, the embodiment of a ruthless aristocrat, against the rare — if, of course, self-interested — champion-of-the-common-people High Sparrow … because he's a puritan, ostensibly, but I suspect also because of the show's own version of bad fandom, in which the glamour of monarchy makes you root even for the wicked aristocrats if they have just a couple of sympathetic qualities ... What we have here are a collection of prejudices larger than a Lannister army: If you watch Game of Thrones you're almost certainly a liberal, a monarchist, and a Cersei-lover.
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