Word: aboveboard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rawlins nixed the idea, saying she thought it might precipitate a mudslinging contest. "I want to stay aboveboard...
...white or black, the American public agreed that the trial was aboveboard: A majority of whites had said the trial was fair in a CBS News poll the week before the verdict, and the number rose after the decision was announced. For blacks, the number doubled over the same time period, from four in 10 to eight...
...view of some Iraq watchers, Hussein Kamel, whose teeter-totter fortunes looked to be on the upswing again recently, has been advocating a more aboveboard treatment of U.N. monitors, whose job is to search out and police the destruction of Iraq's nuclear, chemical and biological weapons. According to this line, the general, who in the first place had presided over the stockpiling of Iraq's most dangerous arsenals, argued that the sooner the regime comes clean, the quicker the country might resume oil exports and normal economic life. At bottom, though, the quarrel seems to have been over spoils...
...realize the dangers of moral hubris, particularly as revealed by a generation of '60s reformers who campaigned against the '80s as the Decade of Greed. "They think of themselves as the most ethical people in the world," says an Administration insider. "They think everything they do or say is aboveboard and for the good of the country. Therefore they can't understand why someone would doubt their integrity. That is a big part of the problem...
...secret plot or anything," DeGennaro said. "It's something we want to do openlyand aboveboard...