Word: bribe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...city did not shape up. Typically, no one was fired and Pnompenh remains as threadbare as ever. As government corruption accelerates, justice declines: a young government clerk received a stiff sentence for stealing 25?, while rumors indicate that one of Sihanouk's pals took a $125,000 bribe for a government contract and got away without punishment. All of this has set sentiment smoldering among Cambodia's tiny class of professional people and intellectuals...
...resent their overbearing Egyptian allies, and are discouraged by lack of success in the field. Saudi Arabia's King Feisal, who backs the Imam, would be happy to see the Egyptians leave Yemen and an end to the subsidy of Maria Theresa thalers used by the Imam to bribe tribes away from the republicans and keep the mountain Zeidis contented...
...treat Americans far better than Mexicans, the country is a tourist's legal jungle. Most Americans stand by after a car accident; most Mexicans bolt. And anyone involved can be jailed without bail until a non-judge traffic expert dictates a verdict. Mexicans also rely on the mordida (bribe) to pay off witnesses. Cautious Americans carry insurance covering legal aid-and plead innocent to any charge. Sample: failure to pay hotel bills, which may be a nonbailable crime. Conversely, suing hotels for personal injury is virtually impossible; required witnesses (hotel employees) would be fired if they talked...
Give them the vote? Poppycock, puffed Perez. Why, in a neighboring parish there were 800 registered Negroes, "and every damn election they've got to bribe them." What is more, he added, they had to be bribed according to class. "There are $2 voters, $5 voters and $10 voters," he declared. "And they know each other too. The $10 voters would not ride to the polls with a $2 voter-it's beneath their dignity...
...other types of undercover information collection had recently been discovered" in their industry; the survey also found that executives under 50 are less concerned than their elders about the ethics of pirating and spying. Some firms go so far as to hire professional spies, plant informers inside other companies, bribe or blackmail employees for information, tap telephones, even sort rubbish. "I'm picking up a couple of barrels of trash a night now," a California private detective admitted last week. "The way they use these carbons only once now, it's a cinch." Not all of the espionage...