The firm later described them as "insubordinate and self-serving schemers" who had negotiated with rivals while under contract.
His motives are partly self-serving: he needs social credentials in a state that leans leftwards.
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They are the most hypocritical bunch of self-serving egomanics that we've ever had in Congress.
Implicit in this model is a recognition that that which is self-serving leads to suffering.
Elected officials are referred to as 'public servants, ' and that should not be confused with 'self-serving.
Amazing when you think about how selfish and self-serving we have become as a nation.
It's somewhat annoying and self-serving that Schmidt is the one rallying people behind this cause.
But to pretend we can democratize China by means of economics is, finally, a self-serving conceit.
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The impetus for change is dampened by the weight and self-serving nature of the system.
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Denials can also be bet with skepticism since they are often unilaterally self-serving for a company.
Most Thais would not appreciate self-serving political maneuvers in a time of national distress.
Narcissists may say all the right things but their actions eventually reveal them to be self-serving.
It was Osberg who decided to free Buffett of any self-serving spin as a ping-pong player.
Though a leading pro-Russian Chechen says he is brokering peace, his claim sounds self-serving.
Two hundred years of self-serving misrule, isolation and environmental degradation have left the island nation staggering.
The problem, however, is that America's position is perceived by the Europeans, probably rightly, as self-serving.
The leaks from American officials are probably self-serving attempts to keep their troubled project afloat.
It would be an apt birthplace for another, new Russia: more decentralised and, with luck, less self-serving.
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The self-serving habits of the lawyers, consultants and political hacks are just too entrenched.
But when a net neutrality regime gums things up, it'll be tough to extricate a self-serving FCC.
To punish private sector defined contribution plans and reward public sector defined benefit plans is egregiously self-serving.
While all political leaders call for compromise, their actions and finger pointing increasingly appear hypocritical and self-serving.
For the Kremlin's propagandists, Mr Berezovsky is a terrorist sympathiser and Mr Khodorkovsky is a self-serving crook.
The result is a self-serving, mutually protective coterie, using the patronage of the state to sustain careers.
They are right also that environmental debate, on every side, is too often cloudy, biased and self-serving.
One man might resist his brother because the brother is attempting to impose a self-serving or short-sighted solution.
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Microsoft's and Coca-Cola's broad definition of their markets is clearly self-serving, but cannot be dismissed out of hand.
And while executives may claim these line improvement strategies are primarily to entertain guests, they offer several self-serving benefits.
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Simply blasting out self-serving marketing material that only benefits your brand is lazy.
Just because an argument is self-serving, however, doesn't mean it can't be true.
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