Catering to the industry in pursuit of profits, integrity and accountability to investors was abandoned.

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"That's where we're saving dollars, and we've done it in a very cautious and strategic way that brings integrity and accountability to the system but does not in any way affect the benefit structure, " Stabenow said.

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After Prime Minister David Cameron had opened a wide-ranging Commons debate on public confidence in the media and the police on 20 July 2011, Mr Miliband declared that the "integrity, responsibility and accountability" of UK institutions had been called into question.

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Yet all too often we expect determination, reliability, focus, accountability, integrity and a host of other qualities in others without first making sure we have these traits in ourselves.

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The seven principles, now enshrined in the ministerial code, are selflessness, integrity, objectivity, accountability, openness, honesty and leadership.

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