Word: publicize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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These sensationalized aspects of the Tower battle are riveting, but they distract from far more universal questions about the conduct of public officials. The reason ethics in Government seems so tiresome is that the goal has become obscured in a legalistic fog of disclosure requirements, recusations and blind trusts. Lost in the mist are commonsense standards for integrity in Government like these...
...argument serves as a deft reminder that there are also Senators whose alcoholic and amorous behavior might not stand sustained scrutiny. There is just enough merit to Tower's who-is-fit-to-judge-whom bluster to accentuate the confusion over the proper standards of conduct for public officials...
...Nation Can Demand Sacrifices for Public Service. Few deny that top Executive Branch officials are underpaid. Money, however, is but one measure of compensation for serving at the highest levels of Government; there is also a huge premium to be derived from fascinating work, public recognition and perhaps even the chance to shape history. This is why it is disturbing that the President's ethics commission last week kicked the issue of limits on outside earned income for top officials to Congress, an institution not known for its ethical sensitivity...
Second Trips Through the Revolving Door Are Dangerous. Tower left the arms- control talks in Geneva in 1986 with the clear sense that after 25 years in public office, it was now time to get rich. With this sense of entitlement, he promptly lined up more than $750,000 in consulting work with six leading defense contractors. To believe Tower, he provided them with little more than the "enlightened judgment" they could just as easily get from reading the papers and dropping by a few academic think tanks. If true, it appears that Tower was vastly overpaid for his services...
...scandal has scorched the Socialist Party (PASOK), and public cynicism has increasingly focused on the party's leader, Papandreou himself. The Prime Minister last September was already the target of snickering and outrage as he conducted a highly public extramarital liaison with airline flight steward Dimitra Liani, 34. As the parliamentary investigations dug through testimony, the question loomed: Was the Prime Minister aware of the crime all along...