Once McCain picked Palin, Cyr's organization sped up an ethics complaint it was preparing against the governor.

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The above statement, however, was made not by Hollender but by Owen Milne, the director for development for Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility, a nonprofit business trade organization, which advances business ethics that advance a triple bottom line, here in Vermont.

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Ask the preparer if he or she belongs to any professional organization that includes a code of ethics and that requires continuing education.

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It is this kind of behavior that earned her the 2011 Componente della Commissione Etica prize awarded by an international cycling organization to the riders who best embodies ethics and fairness in competition.

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Cheating rates rise through middle school and by high school, 51% of students admit to cheating on a test in the past year, and 74% say they have copied another student's homework, according to a 2012 survey of 23, 000 high-school students by the Josephson Institute of Ethics, in Los Angeles, a nonprofit character-education organization.

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