Institutions that reward relative performance (ie, did you perform better than your colleagues?) encourage unscrupulous co-workers to sabotage each other.
It also coddles Wall Street companies — which encourage unscrupulous lending by buying up risky loans — by limiting the conditions under which they can be sued by borrowers.
But it has also encouraged unscrupulous and frivolous litigants, and a legal industry that caters to them.
For another, the state's flawed deregulation scheme practically invited unscrupulous behavior.
Muttering about the unscrupulous behavior of the airline, he started to have a meltdown.
He listed several public figures whose anti-Mafia stances disguised privately unscrupulous behavior.
Yoder and Knight told stories of unscrupulous behavior — one woman sent her 3-year-old out to steal newspaper inserts off neighbors' driveways.
Still, unscrupulous behavior takes a heavy toll, as does the callousness of many of the smugglers who treat their human charges as little more than cargo.
To think American consumers are immune to this unscrupulous behavior is to ignore the Byzantine reality of the global gluten trade.
But Mr. Kristof assures us that we needn't worry: Mr. McCain is always quite conscious of his own unscrupulous behavior, and that proves his high moral character.
