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ethical ethical foreign policy the conduct of foreign policy according to ethical as well as national considerations; the phrase has been particularly associated with the incumbency of the Labour politician Robin Cook as Foreign Secretary (1997–2001).
ethical investment investment in companies that meet ethical criteria specified by the investor, typically excluding the armaments and tobacco industries.
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Ethics Programs in Small Rural Hospitals
Magazine article from: Healthcare Executive; 11/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; Ethics committees are essential for all healthcare facilities...hospital (CAH), W and we currently do not have an ethics committee. What approaches should we take in the development of an ethics committee? A. Ethics committees are an important...
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Ethics in education--which ethics?(Report)
Magazine article from: Contemporary PNG Studies; 11/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...for the moral state of Papua New Guinea, and ethics is proposed as a means of improving the situation...will consider two ways in which the teaching of ethics might be approached, viz an ethics of doing and an ethics of being. An ethics of...
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Ethics process in need of overhaul, panel member says: Urges tighter scrutiny, penalties for groundless complaints.(A)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 1/24/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...the next few months aims to overhaul its ethics-review process by discouraging groundless...Florida Republican, who chaired the ethics subcommittee that just wrapped up a two...fined him $300,000 for sending the ethics panel inaccurate information and failing...
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Ethics becoming a byword on the '90s college campus
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 1/7/1992; ; 700+ words
; ...holding back information about a pollutant, ethics has become a byword in academia in the...teaching in recent decades, the study of ethics in the workplace is now returning in full...example, have extended their traditional ethics teaching into new ethics-across-the...
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Ethics committe reviews grievances
Magazine article from: Healthcare Executive; 7/1/1998; ; 649 words
; Ethics Committee Reviews Grievances During the past year, ACHE's Ethics Committee considered six grievances concerning ACHE...cases remain under investigation at this time. The Ethics Committee is responsible for reviewing and annually...
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Why ethics? (guidelines for implementing an ethics initiative)(includes ethics survey form devised by the Ethics Resource Center)(Cover Story)
Magazine article from: Association Management; 9/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...Here's why - and how - to lead an ethics initiative. When I spoke recently to association executives about the benefits of ethics programs, one finally asked the question...priority should I - can I - give to a member ethics program?" I listed the many benefits...
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Ethics In Construction.
Magazine article from: Michigan Contractor and Builder; 12/25/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...Anahid Lisa Derbabian Seminar deals with ethics in the construction business "Our industry has an image problem. There are no ethics in construction; there are only ethical...If we forget this, we lose sight of ethics," said Dr. James Gill, Jr., JD...
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Ethics, Law And Society 2007 Presents A Selection Of Papers And Commentaries On Topics In Bioethics, Ethics And Society, And Business And Professional Ethics.
M2 Presswire; 11/30/2007; 700+ words
; ...30 November 2007-Research and Markets: Ethics, Law And Society 2007 Presents A Selection...And Commentaries On Topics In Bioethics, Ethics And Society, And Business And Professional Ethics(C)1994-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE...
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Ethics
Magazine article from: Institute of Transportation Engineers. ITE Journal; 1/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...COMPLETED A SURVEY OF ITE MEMBERS TO DETERMINE NOW ETHICS IS VIEWED AND TO CITE EXAMPLES OF UNETHICAL PRACTICES...DICTIOnary, Second College Edition, defines "ethics" as follows: "3. ethics (used with a sing. verb). The study of the...
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Ethics induced stress in the local government workplace.
Magazine article from: Public Personnel Management; 12/22/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...developing the field of government ethics as a philosophically structured and...empirical based research on government ethics by documenting and analyzing an issue that has been largely overlooked--ethics induced stress in the local government...
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Ethics, Legal
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law
ETHICS, LEGAL The branch of philosophy that defines...themselves and one another. In modern society, ethics define how individuals, professionals...to interact with one another. The word ethics is derived from the Greek word ethos , which...
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Ethics of Public Health
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Public Health
ETHICS OF PUBLIC HEALTH Since antiquity, people...cultural values, their morality, and their ethics. Values express what people believe to...and "right to life" on the other hand. Ethics is the branch of philosophy that deals with...
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Ethics in Management
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Business and Finance, 2nd ed.
ETHICS IN MANAGEMENT Managers in today's business world increasingly...two separate but interrelated concerns — business ethics and social responsibility. BUSINESS ETHICS Perhaps the most practical approach to view ethics is as a...
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Ethics: An Overview
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Business and Finance, 2nd ed.
ETHICS: AN OVERVIEW Ethics is the study of questions of morality, the search to understand what...motives of choice, and patterns of good and bad conduct. The word ethics is derived from the Greek ethikos , meaning "character." Issues...
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Medical Ethics
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Science and Religion
Medical Ethics Moral concerns have always been implicit...The origins of contemporary medical ethics may be traced to the Enlightenment, when...deliberation, and from which medical ethics arose as a system of mutually related...
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