Most experts believe that the essence of doing the right thing is ethics.

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Under HCA's do-right bureaucracy, its board boasts an ethics and compliance committee of independent directors.

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Morality and ethics and what you think is right and wrong aside, this is a numbers game.

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Mrs Merkel's centre-right Christian Democrats met their junior partners on Sunday after the ethics panel had delivered its conclusions.

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Queasy about the ethics, he staged the meeting but refused to come right out and ask for a kickback.

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Getting a project on that past an ethics committee might involve an interesting act of communication in its own right.

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Vivienne Nathanson, head of science and ethics at the British Medical Association, said competent adults had an absolute right to make medical decisions.

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Washington (CNN) -- The House committee tasked with investigating ethics allegations against California Rep. Maxine Waters has concluded that the congresswoman's right to due process was never violated during the panel's lengthy -- and still incomplete -- inquiry.

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The challenge, in many cases, is placing ethics high enough on their priority list to adapt existing tools toward encouraging what's right.

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