Eli Lilly has been involved in numerous controversies, including political and medical ethics controversies.

At the same time, Representative Tom DeLay, the powerful House majority leader, who spent last week immersed in an ethics controversy, was uncharacteristically quiet about the bill.

It was no wonder that he showed some sympathy for his adversary, Mr. Gingrich, and said of the ethics controversy racking the House, "I want it to be over."

The White House travel office controversy, sometimes referred to as Travelgate, was the first major ethics controversy of the Clinton administration.

The travel office affair quickly became the first major ethics controversy of the Clinton presidency and an embarrassment for the new administration.

Observing the ethics controversy that the NATO bombing provoked, Bard Maeland, a chaplain in the Norwegian army, decided that a scholarly forum for such debate was urgently needed.

Taylor thus finds himself dropped into the maw of a journalistic ethics controversy.

Though arguably minor compared to the Edwards scandals of the 1980s and 1990s, the governor was embroiled in several ethics controversies during his first two terms in office.

In the view of many Democrats on Capitol Hill, it is critical for Mr. Wright to battle the perception that the ethics controversy will leave him permanently wounded and incapable of leading.

Mr. DeLay, the No.2 House Republican, , has been embroiled in ethics controversies for months, ever since a grand jury in Texas indicted some of his top operatives.