Word: conflict-of-interest
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...been a hired gun in Washington's range wars, a tactician seeking out the right angle of attack. He counseled Jimmy Carter's Budget Director Bert Lance on his banking problems, Speaker of the House Jim Wright on his ethics, and Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas on conflict-of-interest charges...
These personal investments are barely permissible by the HMC policy. Nonetheless, the holdings violate the spirit and the underlying logic behind the conflict-of-interest restrictions...
What we do know is that Meyer should strictly enforce the letter and spirit of HMC's conflict-of-interest policy. He should ask all HMC traders to sell their stock in Harken. He should ask them to dispose of their holdings in other companies that Harvard is heavily invested in. Meyer should disclose information about potential conflicts of interests for public examination. Meyer must do so if he wants to restore confidence in HMC's management of the endowment...
...University's chief legal advisor and one of its top administrators, since then Steiner has worked on a broad range of topics, including federal investigations, dental benefit programs and conflict-of-interest policies...
...becoming what I always feared the most: a permanently overgrown bureaucracy. In Texas I'm getting disturbing conflict-of-interest reports about government lawyers who work on contracts and then quit and come back on the other side of the table on the same deal...