Word: dishonestly
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...devices in illuminating the characters of the institutions he visits are the Meaningful Remark and the Significant Event. Always, when Boroff is trying to prove to a point, up pops "a pretty girl," "a usual observation," or "a symbol" to support him. This is not to say he is dishonest; but there is a great danger in treating an isolated remark or incident as typical of an entire institution...
...reliance on mutual trust, however, there is an extraordinary extralegal judicial system maintained by the two diamond clubs that function as West 47th Street's stock exchanges or trading centers. Arbitration panels meet as needed to settle disputes between traders. If a man is found to be dishonest, he can be expelled from the club, cannot use the facilities of any other diamond club in the world. Says one top diamond man: "That's the biggest motive a fellow has for behaving himself...
...commander in chief of Warsaw Pact armies] brought pressure to bear on us by threatening to exclude us from the Warsaw Pact." The Russians also tried to sub- vert Albania's party officials. Specifically Mrs. Liri Belishova, a member of the Politburo, who "capitulated to the dishonest threats of the Soviet Union...
Stripped Men. In its drive on corruption, the junta has arrested twelve top "millionaire businessmen" on charges of "making dishonest fortunes," and warned that they will be subject to fines up to five times the so-called illegal gains. In short, the junta planned to strip the country's richest men of their wealth and reinvest it in public projects. Military officers have replaced the civilian heads of all the state corporations that control South Korea's coal and tungsten mines, produce its power, run the tobacco and salt monopoly. All over Seoul, merchants and restaurateurs nervously...
...week that silence was shattered by one of the biggest of the big: Henry Ford, 43, chairman of Ford Motor Co. and a director of one of the indicted electrical firms, General Electric. Speaking before the Minneapolis Junior Chamber of Commerce, Ford decried the tendency of business caught in dishonest acts to blame "a few bad apples" or to complain about persecution by the Government. Said he: "There is really only one thing for top executives to do at such a time as this. That is to forget the alibis and the explanations and have the fortitude-the plain guts...