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Critics have asked tough questions about the writers' judgment and motives: How could these women just sit by and let this happen?
Routine clinical assessment of technologies by financially interested institutions fosters public cynicism and distrust of the motives of academic biomedical researchers.
Hardly a pack of jackals feeding off the crippled South, the carpetbaggers came from various backgrounds and acted from a range of motives, historians tell us.
What are his hidden motives?
Indeed, Chaplin never signals the man's duplicity, and one wonders if his Townsend has even fully admitted to himself that his motives are impure.