Word: condemned
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...than as businesses. "It's wrong for us who have an education and who have all the privileges to teach each other how to cheat," she says. Her harsh analogy is not to income-tax advice but to outright theft. "It's easy for a lot of people to condemn youngsters who walk into stores that have been blasted open and take things that don't belong to them. Everyone calls that looting, and it's certainly illegal and not appropriate. But when people with $350,000 incomes shelter that by transferring assets to grandparents and reporting...
...firmly condemn that conduct. We feel thatthe body should censure the president," thestatement said...
...Harvard students, don't miss any opportunities to condemn Harvard as an institution in instances when Harvard policy is geared toward the interests of the adherents to one particular creed. Yet, interestingly enough, the scheduling of the U.C. elections indicated that even when we the students are in charge, we perform the same degree of neutrality that Harvard University is plagued by. But that is beside the point...
...would condemn such protective lies. But problems arise when the alleged noble purpose of a lie loses the clarity, say, of saving innocent lives and gets muddled by other considerations. National security has been a notorious refuge for scoundrels who confuse their interests with their country's and therefore lie to cover up both. Convinced that winning the Vietnam War was essential to U.S. interests, President Lyndon Johnson was exasperated to learn that not all Americans agreed with him. These ignorant, shortsighted people therefore had to be protected from themselves, an end that justified almost any means. The long trail...
...Banca Nazionale del Lavoro, pleaded guilty to 60 counts of a 347-count federal indictment that accused him of devising an elaborate "off-books" scheme to hide $4 billion in unbacked loans and unauthorized U.S.-backed credits to Iraq. But on the eve of a sentencing hearing that could condemn him to 390 years in prison, Drogoul replaced his public defender with the wily Cook, who moved to vacate the guilty plea...