The king assigned them [Daniel and his fellow countrymen from Judah] a daily amount of food and wine from the king's table. They were to be trained for three years, and after that they were to enter the king's service. . . .

But Daniel resolved not to defile himself with the royal food and wine, and he asked the chief official for permission not to defile himself this way. Now God had caused the official to show favor and sympathy to Daniel, but the official told Daniel, "lam afraid of my lord the king, who has assigned your food and drink. Why should he see you looking worse than the other young men your age? The king would then have my head because of you."

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In Business Terms In Leading with Integrity, Fred Smith, Sr., an executive with Genesco for many years, wrote, "I heard the Jewish writer Chaim Potok say a true leader is never absorbed into the stream in which he swims. … The integrity of a leader often is shown in ...