Then there's the conflict-of-interest thing with Bill.    From Wordnik.com.  [Election Central Morning Roundup] Reference

Any panel must come with strict conflict-of-interest guidelines.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dean Baker: Good Medicine: Why Not for Everyone?] Reference

Crawford later plead guilty to the conflict-of-interest charges.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deirdre Imus: FDA: Another Government Regulatory Disaster -- II of III] Reference

Now, as a conflict-of-interest disclosure, I love Rachel Maddow's show.    From Wordnik.com.  [RJ Eskow: No, Rachel, No! This "Health Reform" Could Lose the Middle Class for Dems] Reference

We are living, after all, in a sort of conflict-of-interest golden age.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thomas Frank: When Newspapers Peddle Influence] Reference

Mutual funds, however, are given a pass on these conflict-of-interest rules.    From Wordnik.com.  [Let's Set a Target,] Reference

NIH has once again been caught with its pants down on the conflict-of-interest issue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Merrill Goozner: Big Tobacco & An NIH-Funded Cancer Screening Study] Reference

The campaign also released a new conflict-of-interest policy barring such arrangements.    From Wordnik.com.  [McCain: Americans Should Be Afraid -- Very Afraid -- Of President Obama] Reference

For example, we should install strict conflict-of-interest rules for trustees and managers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Capitalism 3.0~ Chapter 6] Reference

The report also called on the IPCC to develop a conflict-of-interest policy for participants.    From Wordnik.com.  [Report: Climate-Change Group Needs Management Reform] Reference

So, with Paulson's personal conflict-of-interest, and his outrageous proposal, here's my question.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paul Abrams: "Everyone" Says Paulson Has Credibility: What About His Impossible Conflict-of-Interest?] Reference

The participants have strictly delineated responsibilities and must abide by specific conflict-of-interest rules.    From Wordnik.com.  [McCain Takes Unusual Tack With Transition Team] Reference

Since the Yankees do own YES, is there a conflict-of-interest policy the announcers and broadcasters must follow?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Questions for Tracy Dolgin] Reference

So far, the SEC has uncovered violations of internal conflict-of-interest policies that occurred earlier this year.    From Wordnik.com.  [Senators Press SEC Over Rules] Reference

That's what leads otherwise intelligent people to say, "Oh yeah, we'll wave the company's conflict-of-interest rules.".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Desperation Move for Disney?] Reference

Are our conflict-of-interest policies aligned to support convergence of interest while guarding against true conflicts?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Margaret Anderson: Top 10 Medical Research Trends To Watch In 2010] Reference

There's also new conflict-of-interest procedures and policies and a system to protect whistleblowers who report wrongdoing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Feed the Children charity is dealing with a host of problems] Reference

They even threatened to defund their own oversight board (now defunct) to derail a threatened conflict-of-interest investigation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Failing Grade] Reference

Attorney Isaacs declined to address the possible conflict-of-interest issue, but a Mahoney spokesman confirmed the second affair.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sunshine-State Scandal] Reference

She wants to be free to grab all the money being thrown at her right now, without any pesky ethical or conflict-of-interest problems.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mario Almonte: Sarah Palin Goes Full Tilt] Reference

Since its inception in 1906 as the Bureau of Chemistry, however, the FDA has been mired in an incestuous conflict-of-interest culture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deirdre Imus: FDA: Another Government Regulatory Disaster -- II of III] Reference

It was intended to serve as a restraint on the power of Congress to set its own salary — an obvious potential for conflict-of-interest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edwards Mailer In Iowa Reiterates His Threat To Take Away Congress' Health Care] Reference

And because they are freelance government contractors, they aren't subject to the same conflict-of-interest rules as elected or appointed politicians.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Cusack: Calling Things What They Are: More From My Conversation with Naomi Klein] Reference

One of its subsidiaries, Ingenix, determines the "customary" rates for medical care for health insurance companies -- a likely conflict-of-interest right there.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peter Dreier: Meet UnitedHealth CEO Stephen Hemsley: Rich, Powerful, Not Yet Famous] Reference

Even if one grants that Connected Nation was wired in under the terms of a misguided bill, the agency notice of funds availability had no conflict-of-interest safeguards.    From Wordnik.com.  [Art Brodsky: $350 Million Internet Program Being Set Up to Fail] Reference

Even if you get rid of the conflict-of-interest problem, it still seems to me that these players exist to tell Wall Street that it doesn't really need to know what it's doing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Al Franken: The rating agencies had 'a reason to be stupid'] Reference

The inspector general of the Department of Health and Human Services is investigating a conflict-of-interest allegation involving the official in charge of drug approvals at.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ellen Brown: The Mercury Mischief: As Obama Warns of Hazards, The FDA Approves Mercury Dental Fillings] Reference

Newsom was a landlord when he served on the Board of Supervisors, and the City's conflict-of-interest rules prevented him from taking a stand on many pro-tenant ballot measures.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paul Hogarth: California Tenants Have No Friends in Governor's Race] Reference

WASHINGTON — Several prospects to replace Supreme Court Justice David Souter have major stock holdings that could pose conflict-of-interest problems in cases that might come.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shelby Knox: Sex, Lies, and Federal Money: My Experience With Abstinence-Only Education] Reference