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...animal preservationists, leopard coats and alligator shoes have long ranked among the most flagrant symbols of human indifference to the fate of wild animals. Even among the general public, consciousness has been raised high enough so that anyone sporting finery made from the skins of endangered animals runs the risk of at least verbal assault...
Despite glasnost, the Soviet public had only a limited view of the proceedings. Official press accounts stressed that the investigative report blamed flagrant breaches of safety rules for the accident. The nightly television news program Vremya (Time) showed a few minutes of the opening day without mentioning that the defendants had denied some of the accusations. Subsequent sessions were not reported...
More than 100 members of the Reagan Administration have had ethical or legal charges leveled against them. That number is without precedent. While the Reagan Administration's missteps may not have been as flagrant as the Teapot Dome scandal or as pernicious as Watergate, they seem more general, more pervasive and somehow more ingrained than those of any previous Administration. During other presidencies, scandals such as Watergate seemed to multiply from a single cancer; the Reagan Administration, however, appears to have suffered a breakdown of the immune system, opening the way to all kinds of ethical and moral infections...
Just how far does the Government plan to go in its roundup of insider traders? The distance, apparently. Until now, jittery Wall Streeters could take comfort that the targets would be largely the most flagrant, Ivan Boesky- like abusers. But that reassuring notion rapidly evaporated in the aftermath of the Government's arrest this month of three high-ranking Wall Street officials, two of whom had allegedly made insider-trading profits only for their firms, not for personal gain. The cases suggested that prosecutors plan to go after not just greedy mavericks but overzealous employees and the companies for whom...
...forgotten" what it has repeatedly called our most important (and, of course) our most costly function, in an editorial that explicitly discusses the Council's use of its income? This appears to me, at best, a contradiction of The Crimson's earlier editorial judgment, or, at worst, a flagrant disregard for journalistic integrity...