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Despite the possibilities of success, the survival of the ethics commission as a legitimate check on official misconduct remains an open question. The 1978 Ethics Law is not the first such statute. In fact, a conflict of interest law has been in effect in the Commonwealth for 16 years. The old law, however, was breached far more often than enforced. As Harshbarger notes, "We have once again created a law and an enforcement arm. Like so many that went before it the question is--Will it go down the drain, or will it become merely an appendage or a bureaucracy...
John M. Grady, a member of RUSH, said yesterday that he thinks the study reflects a fear on the part of the institutions. "If some of the Fair Share demands are put into effect, then these institutions are going to have to start providing more funds to the community through taxes. Their only response is to come out with these massive figures...
...Medical Area Services Organization (MASCO), which is owned in part by Harvard, "asked us to figure out a way to show the positive economic and financial aspects of these hospitals, as it would have a salutary effect on easing the long run discussions about tax-exempt property in the city." James E. Howell, a senior vice president of the First National Bank of Boston, which performed the study, said...
...their creation, and has about as much in common with Arthur Conan Dyle's stories as Plummer has in common with Basil Rathbone. Both Rathbone and Plummer wear deerstalker hats and speak with upperclass vowels, and both Doyle's work and this script rely heavily on fog for dramatic effect. And that is where the resemblance ends...
...African government that a settlement in Namibia is in its own interest. With a Namibian settlement, Moose said, the South Africans can be assured that "at least on that border they aren't going to be faced with a growing military confrontation, and these won't be the spillover effect of that into South Africa itself...