Selling goods and services to the state presents more serious ethics problems than do similar transactions within the private sector.

"He sort of vacated the premises after the ethics problem."

His game plan has been to act as if his ethics problems never happened, or were somehow irrelevant to his responsibilities in the Senate.

It's an interesting ethics problem, but it's not really a conflict of interest.

One 1988 study hints at the dimensions of the ethics problem.

"The town needs to take a more global approach in dealing with ethics problems," he said.

She reluctantly skipped the 1986 campaign because of ethics problems.

Culture differences can create difficult medical ethics problems.

In recent months, conservatives have bemoaned the effects of power on their movement, like mounting deficits and ethics problems.

"We had come to expect that people in that position would take care of ethics problems."