The string of controversies also underscores the opaque nexus between business and politics in India, and the scope for unethical practice therein.

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That discussion appeared in 2008, but three years later, Andrews Air Force Base has a full-time acupuncture clinic, and the military is training more doctors in this dangerous, ineffective, and highly unethical practice.

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Unless you're able to have an interrupted block of time for each project -- a worthwhile goal, but in our multitasking world, a tough one to achieve -- billing by the hour runs the risk of being an unethical business practice.

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It admitted the practice was "unethical" and offering drugs for anything other than clinical need was wrong.

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His practice was illegal, unethical and unsafe.

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So.. this year I am waiting to see if they pull the same unethical (at the very least) practice.

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It might seem churlish to single out Barclays for this criticism, especially since I know that virtually all the other major banking institutions involved in money-laundering, LIBOR manipulation and all the other unethical and illegal activity over the past five years, have similar codes or principles of best practice in place and claim to link them to remuneration.

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