Obviously, it is now in his best interests for him to stand aside and deal solely with the issue of his health.

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The key to getting a deal done is for Boehner to sacrifice his leadership position to do what is in the best interests of all the other Americans who are not Tea Party members.

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But even companies that are trying to make their executive compensation transparent find it hard to reconcile this objective with two others:the need to attract the best person for the job of CEO and the desire to align his interests with those of shareholders.

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It also takes a pretty cynical Speaker of the House to accept and promote the loss of one million jobs while blatantly acting against the best financial interests of the nation for the purpose of protecting jobs in his own congressional district.

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The NBPA's demand for his resignation was motivated by its "need to protect the NBPA management and their own best interests instead of protecting the players, " Mr. Fisher said in a statement issued on Friday.

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Ian Mill QC said as manager he was supposed to look after the boxer's best interests but as promoter he had to "secure all due profit and reward" for his company.

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In a letter announcing his resignation, Pernetti said he had reluctantly concluded that it was in the school's best interests for him to stand down.

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At an energy conference in Athens on Nov. 22 Gore conceded an inconvenient truth--that his support for grain-based ethanol production was ill-advised and had more to do with politics than the best interests of the environment and the nation.

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