It was considered a very heinous, unscrupulous act for a man who had taken the Hippocratic oath.... Dr. Griffin's life poses a question, this business of ambition driven by insecurity, or whatever it was driven by, versus principles and so forth and how we maneuver and skirt around obstacles like right and wrong to reach our destination.
If one thought it was bad after the financial crisis when big banks foreclosed on 100,000 homes by the year 2012, an unscrupulous act that facilitated the exodus of hundreds of thousands of people and reduced the city's real estate value by one-third, think again.
They doubted that Mr. Hurd, ever meticulous and boastful of his integrity, could commit such unscrupulous acts, according to people with knowledge of the board's thinking.
These are the qualities that define a truly rare character who, despite all of his vices and unscrupulous acts, viewers cheer to champion over his rivals, episode after episode.
Doman's experience illustrates what some actors and others working in the entertainment industry say is an indifferent attitude by Los Angeles authorities toward illegal or unscrupulous acts by talent agents and others who help performers secure work.
But they should not be at a disadvantage to unscrupulous competitors — who act recklessly in the absence of rules (a la the current privacy debate).
It says that the California statute might be vulnerable to exploitation by unscrupulous physicians, that Compassionate Use Act patients may overproduce, and that the history of the narcotics trade shows the difficulty of cordoning off any drug use from the rest of the market.
If you add to these debacles a whole series of high-profile, far-reaching scandals (Enron, Madoff, Wells Fargo, Volkswagen), where unscrupulous companies and their executives acted for themselves while pretending to do what was in the shareholder's interest, the old story simply collapses.
Nicholas Schmidle illustrates just how difficult it is to hold unscrupulous arms dealers accountable for their acts ("Disarming Viktor Bout," March 5th).
These camps were sustained even when the region was pacified, thus leaving vast pastoral land unutilized and susceptible to illegal acquisition by unscrupulous individuals, especially local elites who acted on their own behalf or as proxies of financially and politically connected people in the country.
To prevent future unscrupulous actions, Congress passed the Anti-Moiety Act, which Grant signed into law in 1874, abolishing that payment system.
