Word: baksheesh
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...Gabor, whose first choice is not a candidate this time: "Nixon would know how to deal with the Iranian militants: get a million dollars baksheesh and pay them off. They steal a ring off your ringer and sell it back to you. Nixon understands...
Kabul does retain some scraps of its former character. Donkeys laden with wicker panniers of fruit plod along the muddy side streets. Women beggars, their faces concealed completely by hoods with mesh eye holes, wail for baksheesh outside rug stores. Turbaned tribesmen from the mountains stride along shouldering huge bundles. Boys offer sticks of lamb shashlik grilled over charcoal at street corners. Outside moviehouses there are garish posters of Afghan-made westerns in which ersatz Omar Sharifs twirl six-shooters in each hand. But the cinemas are open only in the afternoons, and ticket sales are slow because...
...bribery scandals involving Lockheed and other firms. Last week the SEC was still meeting with leading corporate lawyers to discuss possible guidelines pertaining to enforcement rules. Many businessmen and some Government officials challenge the whole concept of exporting morality to parts of the world like the Middle East, where baksheesh, or greasing the palm, is an accepted fact of business life. Says the president of one Houston oil company: "Things might have gone on that are part of the art of doing business overseas...
...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...