But the International Olympic Committee has withdrawn its backing, saying it would be against ethical guidelines.

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It matters because the Government is supposed to have ethical guidelines for where we sell arms and whose hands they fall into.

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The programme, which aired in June 2008 put Primark's claims that it could deliver cheap, fast fashion without breaking ethical guidelines to the test.

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In deciding that the Code of Conduct complied with the NLRA, the General Counsel considered the Code within the overall context of the Ethical Guidelines.

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"While it's important to recognise that the programme did find evidence elsewhere that Primark was contravening its own ethical guidelines, there were still serious failings in the making of the programme, " she added.

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The American Medical Association's Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs published guidelines in 2011 suggesting doctors need to "maintain appropriate boundaries of the patient-physician relationship" online and to consider separating professional and personal content online.

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Those few corporations I have talked to which are serious about enforcing ethical behaviour are regularly impelled by their own guidelines to sack employees who violate ethics policies, never mind claw back their incentive remuneration.

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Analytics can also provide guidelines for developing control systems that reward legal, ethical, and prudent risk taking among managers.

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The guidelines are an effort to ensure that NIH-funded stem cell research is conducted in an ethical and legal manner.

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