Likewise, the scope for self-interested bureaucracies becomes larger as the government channels more resources.
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The 1996 Telecom Reform Act failed precisely because it did not account for rational, self-interested behavior.
The less you appear self-interested, the more loyal your customers and employees will be.
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More likely, they possessed a self-interested instinct to help get a co-worker back to work.
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Many lawyers and judges have dismissed media campaigns for changes in the law as self-interested.
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Smith spent his whole life examining and reconciling both the self-interested and the "other-interested" side of human nature.
By contrast to the world of self-interested manipulation, the Creative Economy turns out to be hugely profitable.
There was a time when I thought Michael Moore was just another self-interested, over-the-top pundit with an agenda.
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Historically, it takes many revision of the same question before self-interested member states can agree on a compromise!
As a former oped section editor, I grimace at the omissions and fronts that mask so many self-interested expressions.
That we were, at root, self-interested, cowardly, envious and potentially dangerous in groups.
But, even if the motives of individual participants in la Francophonie are self-interested, the fear of homogenisation is genuine.
How, then, can incumbent politicians vote against it without appearing as self-interested money-grabbers?
This faster-moving Net will still be filled with self-interested companies keener on making money than on perfecting your Internet experience.
All we're asking for folks who have been blessed -- like me -- I mean, I'm not being self-interested here.
All were united by a single goal: a genuine -- if also, in many cases, self-interested -- desire to protect kids.
Congress should ignore these self-interested pleas, and continue to promote a vibrant and dynamic free market economy that creates investment and jobs.
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And overblown and hypothetical concerns from self-interested parties should not be used as the basis for onerous conditions and unrelated new regulations.
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Outsiders who unsettle the obstetric cartel meet clannish (and even self-interested) opposition.
Morocco's proposal is plainly self-interested: migration is vital to the nation's economy.
In fact, more than being rational, self-interested, passionate, or imitative creatures at our root, we humans are defined by our uniquely transformational nature.
This one seeks to put the delineation of political constituencies in the hands of an independent panel of retired judges instead of self-interested politicians.
In fact, I believe self-interested vigilance on the part of capital suppliers will be more effective in reducing bank failures than our regulators have been.
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Mr Cable claimed that the government and the Tories had been persuaded against splitting up the banks by the City "for its own self-interested reasons".
Behaviour that establishes a reputation for honesty, or that signals a willingness to enter into commitments, is also, as a rule, self-interested in this sense.
But a growing number are taking a more robustly self-interested view.
But unlike almost every other nation, it is not entirely self-interested.
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.
Executives from Bear Stearns have said self-interested short-sellers might have contributed to the precipitous decline in Bear Stearns' shares, which, in turn, may have stoked the rumors.
The first is the attempt to construct a logically compelling theory of self-interested altruism and reciprocity, enlisting anthropologists, Enlightenment philosophers and today's game theorists to do so.
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