How can it be in my interests to work less hard?" So much for rewarding "hardworking people".
They are also more realistic than past generations about the difficulties of getting children and grandchildren, who are scattered geographically and may have differing interests, to work together toward a charitable goal.
Brill sets out, John Hersey fashion, to comprehend America's reaction to the terror attack by visiting the viewpoints of those he interviews: officials, lawyers, politicians of course, but regular folk as well; he discerns a peculiar American tendency for special interests to work together in time of crisis.
In "The Pact: Bill Clinton, Newt Gingrich, and the Rivalry That Defined a Generation," Steven M. Gillon quotes Clinton's aide Bruce Reed: "Even though we were in the midst of bitterly divided government, both Clinton and Gingrich saw that it was in their interests, and to a larger degree, in their parties' interests, to work together".
As members of the National Security Council staff from 1994 to 1999, we closely examined nearly a decade's worth of intelligence and we became convinced, like many of our colleagues in the intelligence community, that the religious radicals of Al Qaeda and the secularists of Baathist Iraq simply did not trust one another or share sufficiently compelling interests to work together.
Murray believes it is in Rangers' best interests to work with Ticketus rather than engage in a costly legal battle with them over their contract's validity.
