Regarding your March 30 editorial "The Republic Formerly Known As," let me emphasize that Greece supports NATO's enlargement to those candidates who respect the principles of trust, solidarity and good neighborly relations.
But there were no allegations of assault and he was still held to account for what he described as failing to "live up to the standards and principles of trust, respect and integrity" he had set at the company.
The board told him he had to go, and on Friday night, in a public statement long on regret and short on details, he shocked HP shareholders with a resignation statement that sheepishly admitted to "instances in which I did not live up to the standards and principles of trust, respect and integrity that I have espoused at HP".
"As the investigation progressed, I realized there were instances in which I did not live up to the standards and principles of trust, respect and integrity that I have espoused at H.P". In a statement, the board said it had appointed the chief financial officer, Cathie Lesjak, to the job on an interim basis.
This is not to say that Mr. Hurd should be let off the hook for, in his words, failing "to live up to the standards and principles of trust, respect and integrity that I have espoused at H.P". (Note, by the way, that he doesn't concede that he violated H.P.'s standards of business conduct).
"As the investigation progressed, I realized there were instances in which I did not live up to the standards and principles of trust, respect and integrity that I have espoused at HP and which have guided me throughout my career.
Senator George Allen of Virginia, who is chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, disagreed with Mrs. Whitman's assessment and told The Washington Times last week that the party was winning elections by "sticking to our principles of trusting free people and free enterprise".
We need to apply the principle of trust in bailment, or whatever the local legal vocabulary is, to all that data we have entrusted to other people.
The budgets and time scales may have shifted a bit since then, but the principle of trust in writers and photographers (and a bit of that resultant despair followed by thousands of words) hasn't changed.
We work on the principle of trust similar to Wikipedia," he said.
The traditional paternalistic model and doctor-centred approach to the interaction with the healthcare professional appeared to be very much based around the principle of trust.
