Word: conflict-of-interest
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...Harvard, a non-profit institution, endorse SAS, a for-profit company, especially when the University's own officers are the ones making a profit? And while Harvard insists the deans observed all University conflict-of-interest regulations, how can this be reconciled with the fact that these deans could not possibly have gained their SAS posts--for which they were compensated on an hourly basis--without their direct ties to the University...
Many Washington jobs raise conflict-of-interest questions. When Barbara Morris Lent took a job as a lobbyist for NYNEX, her husband, Congressman Norman Lent, sought approval of the ethics committee to vote on telephone legislation. Lawyer Marc Miller, author of Politicians and their Spouses' Careers, says, "Full disclosure and making sure the spouse got the job for her own talents help resolve the conflict." When Debbie Dingell, a lobbyist for General Motors, married Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman John Dingell in 1981, she switched to an administrative job. "I'm sensitive to conflicts," says Dingell. "Fortunately, GM is large...
...riding around in a tank to prove he's soft on defense. The reality is that America under President Reagan has had the largest peacetime military buildup in history; we are stuck with stockpiles of excess, overpriced weapons systems and a Department of Defense bloated with consultants and conflict-of-interest connections with industry...
REPORTS last week that a fellow at a Harvard-affiliated hospital allegedly violated federal drug regulations, securities law and University conflict-of-interest policies were shocking, to say the least...
Tseng broke Harvard's conflict-of-interest policies by exaggerating his research results to boost the value of his stock in the drug's manufacturer. "A significant conflict of interest had occurred," said Medical School Dean Daniel C. Tosteson. Tseng's research "was run without sufficient safeguards to protect against potential bias," he said. Tseng's supervisor, Associate Professor of Medicine Kenneth R. Kenyon, held $340,000 in the company's stock...