Credit card companies will have to inform cardholders forty-five days before they raise interest rates or change other important terms.

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Why do people become firemen, policemen, soldiers, freedom fighters, all activities that cannot be explained in terms of self-interest alone?

不可能只用拿工资的理由，就能完全解释为什么总有人愿意做,消防员，警察，军人和争取自由的斗士？

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The Hobbesian state was intended to secure the conditions of life, even a highly civilized and cultivated life but one calculated in terms of self-interest and risk avoidance.

霍布斯眼中的国家旨在,保护人民的生命财产安全,即使是那些虽开化有教养却是为一己私利的人,也应当受到国家的保护。

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Fee-based business helps take any conflict of interest in terms of how an advisor gets paid off of the table.

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For the West the confusion is how to assist Muslim countries make the transition into modernity as much out of historical necessity as self-interest in terms of security.

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Facebook will say that it is all a matter of tweaking the algorithms, but once again, advertising creates a conflict of interest in terms of crafting a universal algorithm.

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