• It is fundamental to the integrity of this inquiry to examine whether the independent counsel's evidence is tainted, whether conclusions are colored by improper motive.

    CNN: Transcript: Judiciary Committee impeachment hearing

  • Detectives have said they are puzzled by the motive for the attack but there was no evidence he had been the victim of a robbery or a racist attack.

    BBC: Mohammed Saleem

  • Goldsticker says his tontine annuity snuffs out the murder motive by using a large employee pool and paying out both interest and principal, so the last one alive doesn't get a huge windfall.

    FORBES: Here's an investment vehicle you could kill for.

  • Kickstarter has decided not to confuse its mission by adding the profit motive.

    ECONOMIST: Raising capital online

  • It also filed a suit against Merck in New York, accusing it of flouting American capital-market rules by not explaining its motive for buying the shares.

    ECONOMIST: Two historic German drugs firms scrap for control of a third

  • And that is accepted by NERC, which instead says the primary motive is making the overall science effort more effective by creating 'synergies' between the marine researchers and the polar people - bluntly, getting them to collaborate more routinely and scheduling the four ships more coherently.

    BBC: Decision looms on future for British polar research

  • It is, moreover, a consumer cooperative, founded 60 years ago by some climbers with no profit motive, just a need to import high-quality ice axes from Switzerland.

    FORBES: Backpackers meet bottom line

  • Rand also noted that only an ethic of rational selfishness can justify the pursuit of profit that is the basis of capitalism -- and that so long as self-interest is tainted by moral suspicion, the profit motive will continue to take the rap for every imaginable (or imagined) social ill and economic disaster.

    WSJ: Is Rand Relevant?

  • For many the goal is material gain, but by no means is profit our only motive.

    FORBES: Economists Aren't As Clever As They Think They Are

  • The profit motive can play a part by improving both the quantity and the quality of care on offer.

    ECONOMIST: For-profit medicine

  • For example, a substantial contribution by an individual employed in the financial industry prior to, or immediately following, a portfolio investment decision by the charity may suggest an improper motive that should be investigated.

    FORBES: Charities No Better At Investing Since Madoff

  • The investigation by Northern Constabulary has yet to establish a motive for the killing.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | Scotland | Nairn police call in gun expert

  • Charles, regular passengers and the over 10 million tourists are expected to visit the capital attracted by the programmed cultural variety schedule with the motive of the announcement of Marseille, the Culture capital 2013, will be able to navigate for free with their mobile devices in the station and in the Narvik square.

    ENGADGET: GOWEX bringing free WiFi to French rail stations, starting with Marseille

  • Still, one motive for this week's announcement by Dai-Ichi and Yasuda (both affiliated to Mizuho banks) might be to show their intention to lead consolidation among Mizuho's other rag-bag of insurers.

    ECONOMIST: Japanese insurers

  • Which means that it is very difficult to detect a rational motive for the taking of real bets matched by offsetting fictional ones, because it is very difficult to see how any individual could have profited by such a stratagem.

    BBC: The how but not why of UBS's losing bets

  • But what if the motive wasn't political, but some other grievance by an individual?

    BBC: Obama's cautious approach on Boston

  • The sheriff's investigators, in interview transcripts obtained by CNN, don't ask the teens many questions about the motive for running over Johnny Butts.

    CNN: Victim's son: 'They ran him over because he was black'

  • Politicians and the public have to decide for themselves whether they prefer to listen to the food corporations who are incentivised by profit or the voice of NHS doctors and health campaigners whose only motive is to protect your health.

    BBC: Scrubbing Up: Do hospitals legitimise junk food?

  • Mr Summers strongly denied one potential self-interested motive for a weaker dollar: to help the American stockmarket by improving the prospects of leading multinationals such as Intel, McDonald's, and Gillette, whose dollar profits from Europe have suffered from the weak euro.

    ECONOMIST: Gambling with the mighty greenback | The

  • "We all have a basic need for acceptance and approval by social groups, " says Orville Gilbert Brim, author of The Fame Motive: A Treatise on its Origin and Life Course.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • In fact, the interrogations by Panola County Sheriff's investigators barely touch the surface of looking for a motive in the case.

    CNN: Victim's son: 'They ran him over because he was black'

  • The motive wasn't robbery: left untouched were stacks of banknotes and gold given by pilgrims.

    CNN: ASIANOW - TIME Asia

  • Tobias Dustin Summers, 30, was identified by police Saturday as a suspect in the case but they couldn't elaborate on the motive or what led them to him.

    NPR: LA Police ID Suspect In Girl's Abduction Case

  • That credibility will soon be vulnerable to attack by a party which has restored its own reputation for competence, as well as soundness of motive and generosity of spirit.

    ECONOMIST: Vague but tough

  • Yet few questions about the possible motive for this were asked of any of the teens in any of the statements seen by CNN.

    CNN: Victim's son: 'They ran him over because he was black'

  • The Profit Motive in Education provides a unique glimpse into the potentially transformative power of private sector involvement in education, providing the reader with persuasive evidence supporting the claim that the profit motive can be harnessed to meet the needs of future generations that are not currently being met by the static education models of the past.

    FORBES: Harnessing the Profit Motive to Transform Education

  • Many Egyptian politicians and analysts, accustomed to attributing moves by the SCAF to efforts to extend its own political power or block Islamists, struggled to divine a clear political motive for the disqualifications.

    WSJ: Panel Upends Egypt Election

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