Word: baksheesh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...disruption. He was an old New Dealer, but he knew how to promote business. He wanted dollars from Washington, but even when the donor was a Democratic Administration, Daley insisted that his city hall rather than alien bureaucrats control the money. He was relatively honest, but he tolerated the baksheesh habit all around him because it served the System and the System served...
...Lockheed case has stunned even the most worldly executives?but more because of the size and clumsiness of the bribery, the prominence of the receivers and the potential damage to friendly governments than because of the fact of the payoffs. On a less monumental scale, these managers assert, dash, baksheesh, pots de vin, la mordida?in a word, bribery?is an ancient and accepted practice, necessary in many countries to get any business done...
...terrifying stare," but as for the temples, they "bore me profoundly." The living panorama of the voyage, however, made all his senses tingle with excitement. He responded to everything strange and savage and grotesque. Naked Coptic monks swam out to the young Frenchman's boat to beg for baksheesh and swam back with coins between their teeth. Stray cows poked their noses into ruins that Du Camp was conscientiously measuring. It was fun to discuss theology with prelates of obscure religions, or the technique of the bastinado with corrupt judges (it takes three months for the flesh...
...arrange a new formula under which Italy, West Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands and the U.S. will share with Britain the rental costs of the British base on Malta. Other NATO powers will not be able to use the island-unless, of course, they are prepared to part with additional baksheesh-but they at least won Mintoff's guarantee that Malta will not provide military facilities for members of the Warsaw Pact...