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Knowing The Difference
Knowing The Difference
difference
a. Giving a gift of $50,000 to a foreign minister to secure a business contract with his
country (a customary practice in his country) and then writing off the gift as a tax-
deductible item.
b. Knowing that 1 per cent of all tyres have production defects but shipping them anyway
and giving kilometer allowances to anyone whose tyres wear out prematurely.
c. Manufacturing a new fuel additive that will increase fuel consumption by 10 per cent.
d. Offering a member of the city council $100 000 to vote to give the entrepreneur the local
cable television franchise.
e. Publishing a newspaper story that wrongly implies but does not openly state that the
Minister for Education (a political opponent of the newspaper) is deliberately
withholding funds for education because of the newspaper’s effort to win nomination
support for its candidate from the teachers’ union.
KNOWING THE DIFFERENCE