"It seems highly inappropriate that executives from a company like Pearson can be acting in an official capacity at DfID, while their company provides commercial services that would directly benefit from the type of decisions being taken by DfID," Dearden said.
"Inappropriate levels of executive reward have destroyed public trust and led to a situation where all directors are perceived to be overpaid," said Dominic Rossi of Fidelity Worldwide Investment, which joined with the Association of British Insurers in calling for the changes.
"Trust was sacrificed in too many corporate boardrooms on the altar of quick and illusory profits intended to generate astonishingly inappropriate levels of executive compensation," Mr. McCain said, speaking sharply of "crony capitalism".
Twenty Republican senators (including one supporter of the 2006 immigration bill and two backers of the 2001 DREAM Act) wrote to the president, accusing him of "an inappropriate use of executive power" and worrying about the effects of unleashing "an untold number of illegal immigrants" into the workforce when jobs are scarce.In fact, many eligible immigrants are already in the workforce.
Of course, it's inappropriate for senior executives to get involved with any employee that reports to them.
Festival organizers felt that "to talk about money" on the first day of the festival after the earthquake and tsunami was inappropriate, Clive Gillinson, Carnegie's executive and artistic director, said in an interview on Saturday.
"There were some old rules of thumb that were really inappropriate," said Jack Freund, the executive vice president and chief economist for the city's largest residential landlord group, the Rent Stabilization Association.
She recalls a time early in her career when she was at a sales preparation meeting and an executive made inappropriate comments about her appearance and clothing in front of her colleagues.
"This is wildly inappropriate," said Fred Wertheimer, the executive director of the campaign finance watchdog Democracy 21.
After watching executives pick inappropriate protuberances, a woman saunter barefoot into a corporate training session and more than their share of business diners sipping from -- oh, the utter shame -- the wrong glass of water, Ms. Sanders, Ms. Pachter and Ms. O'Connor would probably agree.
In July, Henning Kagermann, then SAP's chief executive, admitted to "inappropriate" downloads.
