Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...charges include six counts of lying to Congress and withholding information; obstructing a presidential inquiry and making false statements to investigators; altering, shredding and concealing documents; receiving an illegal gratuity, a security system at his home; stealing money from an Iran-Contra account and conspiring to defraud the Internal Revenue Service...
...Crimson's business department is run separately from its newsgathering operation for a reason. Reporters are free to investigate stories, even if that scares off a substantial ad account. And conversely, advertisements are often run even though they contradict our editorial stance; for example, despite more than a decade of editorials in favor of Harvard's support staff union organizing, we have continued to publish the administration's ads in opposition to this drive...
Actually, the only reason we have the luxury of even debating pulling a few thousand dollar ad account is because we can afford to keep running the presses without it. The Crimson is financially secure because of its ad base and graduate donors--comprised of the very groups that boast the very union-busting and investment practices we editorialize against. Pulling the ad is tantamount to giving with one hand, while taking with the other...
Second, look at Continental Airlines. Although Continental has lower operating costs than other airlines, these savings are not passed on to its passengers in a significant manner, but instead they accrue to Frank Lorenzo's unionbusting coffers and personal bank account...
BOOKS: A masterly account of the French Revolution...