Word: complicit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that is exactly what they have done. By refusing to grant Jacobs' stay, our nation's highest court became complicit in a judicial homicide. Save for the dissent by Justices Stevens, Ginsburg and Breyer, the court prioritized procedure over good sense and let an innocent man be killed...
...payoff was information that helped the U.S. land 20,000 troops in Haiti without casualties so far and speed the dismantling of the military regime and restoration of elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Many other people, of course, feel that knowingly paying killers inevitably makes the U.S. morally complicit in their murders, and that is too high an ethical price to pay. Says New Jersey Democratic Congressman Robert Torricelli: "Getting good information from bad people is one thing. Contracting with bad people committing reprehensible deeds that are contrary to our national policy is quite another...
...omission -- an unwillingness or inability to rally the world against Serbia's aggression -- then, argued Robinson, Clinton's Haiti stance reflected an even more reprehensible sin of commission. "To interdict people and then turn them back to be killed without granting them ((asylum hearings))," he said, "makes the President complicit in the killing of those people...
...some ethicists have expressed fears thatuniversities could be complicit in the unethicalpractices of some companies. For example,Prudential's securities division is beinginvestigated by the federal government forimproper licensing, according to a story inyesterday's New York Times...
...these, the last must be most embarrassing to his friends and to Harvard itself, especially now that Stager's assistant has, in an interview with The Crimson (December 11), tried to make university counsel complicit with his ugly and, what she herself calls, "desperate" acts...