The states might act against their narrow self-interests, and collectively create a nationwide sales-tax system.
The concern is that the property-tax lenders are a predatory group that only have their immediate financial self-interests at heart.
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Not so they can please their own greedy self-interests, but so they can compete against each other in trying to please us.
Unlike the erratic democratic political process, there exists in markets a stable, welfare-maximizing equilibrium at which free-acting individuals also optimize social welfare while pursuing their own self-interests.
It is, rather, about the fierce collision of self-interests.
While she may have once been trustworthy it appears that she developed the perspective that she could get away with fraud and put her own self-interests ahead of the interests of others.
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We will see Washington politicians try to balance the demands of voters with their own political self-interests, which should be entertaining -- and maybe even edifying, if they pass a bill that makes finance safer for consumers and the nation.
It is exceedingly hard to believe that House Representatives and Senators would be willing to look past their own self-interests (read: reelection) and willingly alienate even a small portion of their constituents by permitting, for example, the mortgage interest or charitable contribution deduction to be removed from the law.
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Collusion may not always be evident on the face of a settlement, and courts therefore must be particularly vigilant not only for explicit collusion, but also for more subtle signs that class counsel have allowed pursuit of their own self-interests and that of certain class members to infect the negotiations.
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In a line of thought popular among German conservatives between the two World Wars, Kagan holds that liberals are dreamers who believe that nations will behave decently once they are part of a rational world order, where all are free to pursue their enlightened self-interests within a framework of internationally agreed-on rules, as promulgated by such institutions as the League of Nations and the United Nations.
By identifying and understanding the self-expressed interests of your nuanced audiences, you can empower every other marketing activity that seeks to connect with those discrete audiences.
On the one hand, it is not self-evident that those interests will be served by directly implicating the United States in any future conflict between Syria and Israel.
Of course at bottom, we are talking about national interests and self-interest.
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Most self-reported self-defense gun uses may well be illegal and against the interests of society.
Those who have acted in their national short-term self-interest will find that their actions do not serve their long-term interests in a climate- and resource-constrained world.
Yet as Europe's immediate response to the Dubai operation makes clear, Europe itself has abandoned the sober-minded pursuit of its own interests, in favor of cowardly, feckless, self-defeating rhetoric.
As of September 30, 2012, the company had interests in 2, 069 self-storage facilities located in 38 states in U.S. and 189 storage facilities located in seven Western European nations.
That starts with aggressive, principled diplomacy without self-defeating preconditions, but with a cleareyed understanding of our interests.
Customers can download and switch among five self-selected ID packs tailored to an individual's lifestyle and interests with a few simple clicks.
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The editorials by Brown and Taylor are reasonable, although a bit self-serving (or perhaps reflects their long-held research bias and interests).
Meanwhile, its reputation was tarnished by successful prosecutions of Big Board traders who put their own interests ahead of their customers', and by weaknesses in its self-regulatory function.
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However, they offer a unique service that aligns powerfully with the interests of anyone who is actually paying the medical care costs (read self-insured employer, health insurance company, union, government, etc).
Some business interests are also lining up against Gateway, although in at least one case there is obviously self-interest at play.
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