A no-envy test is used in the theory of optimal taxation in order to make sure that no one would have interest to lie about one's preferences (Boadway and Keen 2000).
"But there's just overwhelming evidence now that as you go through life, it's in your best interests to lay down some fat".
When a lawyer asked a witness, "Isn't it true that you have no problem lying when it's in your interest to do so?" the interpreter rendered it as "Doesn't it harm your over-all interests to lie?" The bank's lawyers did not speak Chinese, and the mistake entered the official court record.
You can say it is extreme, but I am sick and tired of the worldly trend of governments shamelessly using scare tactics and blatant self-interest to lie and betray their people just so they can get fat.
Sometimes it is in governments' interests to lie about terrorism.
It had a newsy, magazine-type focus and featured topics of particular interest to a lay audience.
But Mr. Anderszewski's interest seems to lie less in the structure of Bach's counterpoint than in the individual moments of drama it affords.
Among the varied forms of writing that regularly appeared in the magazine, his own greatest interest seemed to lie in the potentialities and possibilities of long nonfiction.
Here Hamilton spends more time on Clinton's public record, but his true interest seems to lie more with psychodrama and sex scandals than with the mechanics of American politics.
Two other sites of interest to paleoanthropology lie in the vicinity of the lake's western shore.
