Word: conflicted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Conflict of interest, low safety standards and exploitation of company benefits are just a few of the ethical dilemmas that business people face every day, panelists told the audience of about 40 people at Emerson Hall...
Objections to LBOs center on three main ethical issues. First, many say that the deals force companies to go private and thus lose any chance of public scrutiny. Second, they say that if management initiates the takeover there is a conflict of interest between their responsibilities to stockholders and their position as investors...
...facts: investment in South Africa perpetuates apartheid, and South African Blacks overwhelmingly favor divestment. Even Reverend Leon Sullivan, who created a set of moral principles for businesses that chose to stay in South Africa, now calls for a complete withdrawal of foreign funds. At a time when racial conflict is becoming more violent and bloody, both Tutu and Sullivan advocate the use of every peaceful pressure that can be brought against the South African government...
...Tremouille said that what he termed Dietrich's conflict of interest should invalidate any ruling. Dietrich's architectural firm owns 1050 Mass. Ave., the value of which will rise sharply once Gund's project is developed, La Tremouille said...
Despite Healy's ruling that there was no conflict of interest, La Tremouille wrote in a letter to the Planning Board that Healy's decision is "difficult to accept by an unbiased person" and should have been made before Dietrich became involved in the case...