Word: conflict-of-interest
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...magazine for an interview with Nancy Reagan. But the White House got caught in a tangle of confusing and inaccurate statements as it tried to explain away the incident. Far more than Stockman's indiscretions, the affair raised serious questions both about White House credibility and possible conflict-of-interest charges against Allen...
...devising the conflict-of-interest guidelines that it did, then, the Faculty Council had to sail through a very narrow channel. On one side lay the Scylla of lax control over professors which could involve the University in sticky financial conflicts or lure faculty from their teaching commitments; on the other rested the Charybdis of strictures rigid enough to drive away top-notch professors. Whether the council succeeded may not be evident for years, when the commitments that Harvard's faculty make in the next year or so begin to surface. And as Watson suggested, the University may never learn...
...take him off. Using his powerful personality, L.B.J. persuaded Goldberg to take the lesser job. Johnson was still working the old game when he named his long-time crony and lawyer, Abe Fortas, to succeed Warren as Chief Justice. That one fell through because of Fortas' conflict-of-interest problems and Johnson's unhappy departure from the White House...
...said he "is not concerned" that the Faculty Council decided this week to postpone its review of the University's conflict-of-interest guidelines...
...fire selections of John F. Kennedy '40. Christopher C. DeMuth '64, lecturer in Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government, who worked both on Nixon's transition and on Reagan's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) transition team, attributes much of the delay this time around to strict conflict-of-interest requirements for prospective appointees and to attempts to find suitable candidates who could satisfy political constituencies or obligations, such as naming minorities and women. Efforts to keep the selection process secret met with little success, as informed and uninformed speculation hovered over every choice, with occasionally ludicrous results...