Word: conflicted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Charges of conflict of interest and complaints about the effects of building shopping mall in east Harvard Square have left residents and developers at odds...
Residents have also said that Planning Board Chair Paul Dietrich has a conflict of interest in the case because his architectural firm owns property near the site. That property might increase in value were Gund's project to be built...
...jeremiads about his sightings. Lately he has been preaching against the rampant impulse for instant gratification. Americans "need to reinstill in ourselves a sense of the importance of the future," he argues. No one argues back in principle, but politics pushes back mercilessly. That standoff underscores a fascinating conflict between Darman's strategy and his psyche...
...internal conflict? Not on this score, Darman insists. He has described himself as "a long-term idealist and a short-term realist." Now, in an introspective moment, he adds, "That's the most important short thing I've ever said about myself." Realism, of course, often serves as a respectable disguise for political expedience. Eight years ago this month, he was the first White House insider to warn his colleagues that Reaganomics was flawed. He and Stockman later considered sabotaging Reagan's 1981 tax-reduction bill. Concessions to assorted special interests, necessary to overcome the Democrats' competing proposal, were becoming...
...year president of Kissinger Associates. The firm's global list of clients (including Britain's Midland Bank, South Korea's vast Daewoo Group and Hunt Oil projects in the Middle East) is so extensive that he may have to cross off entire continents to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest. Eagleburger, who would be in charge when Baker is out of the country, proposes to solve the problem by recusing himself from any decision affecting former clients, but that could leave him with a lot of time on his hands. On top of that, there is grumbling aplenty...