[struwwelpeter]

MICE.

Money
Ideology
Conscience
Ego

I think “sex” would be in the Ego category

We had to memorize it as:

Money
Ideology
Compromised (as in sexual or financial blackmail)
Ego

But I'm out of date.

[allmendream]

I would lump “Conscience” into “ideology” myself.

[nina0113]

You’re probably right - I don’t even know where I picked it up. I’ve been in DC a LOOONNNG time. I think it’s just one of the things you pick up if you live here, like the military alphabet which I know even though I didn’t serve, the No Such Agency, Child Improvement Agency...and the way we know not to ask again what someone does after they’ve deflected the question once.

“Compromised” does make more sense than “conscience”.