In truth, the collective good is only a side benefit of capitalism and a corollary of the following.
They want to stand out, yet are expected to set aside the national interest for the collective good.
It provides a place where college students can form friendships and learn the art of collective good works.
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Let each of us now embrace, with solemn duty and awesome joy, the subordination of our individual liberty to the collective good.
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It's an example of putting individual needs ahead of the collective good, and of putting short term thinking ahead of long term concerns.
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Right-wingers have learned to bury their philosophical differences for the sake of the collective good: free-marketeers support social conservatives over abortion in return for their support over tax cuts.
Taken together, these collective developments sound like good news for lorcaserin (Belviq) in the United States.
Conditions were hardly conducive to recovery and yet the strong, sustained recovery that followed is permanently identified in our collective memory as the good old days.
Consumer Focus's Audrey Gallacher believes collective switching can provide a good deal across the board.
The very notion of World Heritage draws on the idea of collective responsibility for a common good.
Since these loans are in euros, rates this high reflect the growing risk the people of Greece will not be able to make good on their collective debts.
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We want to know that if we allow someone to lead us, he or she will focus on the good of the collective, vs. simply his or her own benefit.
Whichever way you slice it, yoga is fast growing and not likely to slow down, which is probably a good thing for our collective consciousness.
Sustaining good faith in the collective endeavour is another challenge.
As American consumers discovered that our collective credit card was no longer good, the Federal Reserve stepped in with the national credit card and began dumping vast amounts of cheap money on the world.
The company also tries to build up huge communities of interest through massively aggregated individual efforts like the online photo site Flickr, where people post and write about their photos, or del.icio.us, where millions of individuals "tag" their favorite Web sites, establishing a collective sensibility about what's good on the Web.
"It's a collective story about how people can be good to one another in times of crisis, " she said.
The point of these articles is not to pat ourselves on the collective back when we as traders make good calls.
Personal preferences are displaced by irrational collective preferences, which pretend to serve the greater good.
It hoped that by starting the ball rolling it would brand collective-action clauses as a sign of a good credit, rather than of weakness.
By its very nature, collective action also brings complexity, and complexity is rarely good in geopolitics.
That may not necessarily be good news for a country trying to slim its collective waist.
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Even if the ultimate goal in life is to benon-productive, epicurean consumers of all the good pleasures of life a downward-spiraling collective existence, to be sure someone has to do the making if anyone is to do much taking.
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The response of the NFL was to file a charge with National Labor Relations Board arguing that the NFLPA has not negotiated with the league in good faith and claim the union wants to evade its collective bargaining obligations so it can use antitrust litigation to enjoin a lawful lockout.
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The collective national experience that radio and later television defined may be gone for good, though perhaps replaced by Twitter and Facebook.
If you assume this kind of fiscal pact is now within the leaders' grasp, plus some revamped policy commitments from countries like Italy, we would then move to the second act in this feel-good tale, in which Germany agrees to some form of collective underwriting of eurozone debt.
Or, more probably, every time a certain breed of bigot and xenophobe gets a good, sharp, intellectually obstreperous and historically intractable burr up its collective hindquarters.
With stocks challenging multi-year highs, I thought today would be a good opportunity to address one persistently negative datapoint that seems to be stuck in our collective craw: the trend of insider selling way outpacing insider buying in Corporate America.
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