Checking In on Overtime Work in the U.K.

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2. Commentary by Rushworth M. Kidder:

How Valuable are Corporate Values?

According to a new global survey, most companies think they benefit from focusing on values, though they're hard pressed to say why....

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3. What They're Saying:

Dynamite

"They are the boulder in the middle of the highway to personal savings accounts. We will be the dynamite that removes them."

-- Charlie Jarvis, president of conservative lobbying organization USA Next, discussing plans to attack the AARP (formerly the American Association of Retired Persons), which is opposing President Bush's push to privatize Social Security....

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4. Reporters Have Right to Keep Sources Secret, Judge Rules

NEW YORK

Setting up a potential battle before the Supreme Court, a federal judge in New York last week broke ranks with colleagues in Washington, ruling that two "New York Times" reporters do not have to turn over their private phone records to federal prosecutors....

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5. Public TV Stations Censor War Documentary over 'Indecency' Fears

BOSTON

Spooked by uncertainty over federal "indecency" statutes, public TV stations across the nation were forced last week to choose between a sanitized documentary about U.S. soldiers in Iraq or an unexpurgated version that could cost them steeply....

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6. Recent Votes at FDA Again Raise Issue of Industry Influence

WASHINGTON

Important votes on whether to continue selling the potentially dangerous drugs Vioxx and Bextra were decided by panel members who had done consulting for the companies whose products -- and profits -- hung in the balance, an advocacy group claimed last week....

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7. ChoicePoint Discloses Large Breach of Privacy Safeguards

ATLANTA

ChoicePoint Inc., a firm that markets massive amounts of consumer data to private firms and the government, was named last week in a lawsuit stemming from the company's recent disclosure that it had been duped into disclosing private information about at least 145,000 people....

Full story: http://www.globalethics.org/redir/nl.html?d=2/28/2005&;id=02280517525773

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8. Labor Department to Investigate Terms of Settlement with Wal-Mart

WASHINGTON

The U.S. Labor Department's inspector general last week said he will investigate the terms of a recently disclosed child-labor settlement that critics say is skewed to favor the nation's largest retailer, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., because it provides for advance notice in the case of future probes....

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9. Embattled U.N. Refugee Chief Resigns after Loss of Support

UNITED NATIONS

The head of refugee relief efforts for the United Nations quit his post last week following a renewed flare-up over charges that he sexually harassed and intimidated female staffers....

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10. Nevada Proposes Program for Treating Problem Gamblers

LAS VEGAS

The Associated Press last week profiled a new proposal by the governor of Nevada, who hopes to earmark $200,000 for treating compulsive gamblers -- the first time the state government has anted up to fight the problem....

Full story: http://www.globalethics.org/redir/nl.html?d=2/28/2005&;id=02280517543740

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11. Canadian PM Says No to U.S. 'Star Wars' Missile Defense

OTTAWA

Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin has decided that Canada will not participate in the Bush administration's continuing efforts to develop a ballistic missile defense system that might protect the United States and Canada from incoming missiles....

Full story: http://www.globalethics.org/redir/nl.html?d=2/28/2005&;id=02280517550540

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12. Research Report:

U.K. Workers Put In $44 Billion in Unpaid Overtime Annually: Survey

From the U.K. Trades Union Congress:

"Teachers and lecturers on average do longer hours of unpaid overtime than any other occupation, according to the Trades Union Congress's unpaid overtime league table.... The league table shows how the $44.2 billion of unpaid overtime worked in the U.K. last year breaks down between different occupational groups...."

Full story: http://www.globalethics.org/redir/nl.html?d=2/28/2005&;id=0228051755422

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13. Quote from the Ethics File:

Charm vs. Merit

"Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul."

-- Alexander Pope (English poet, 1688-1744)

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