Word: bribe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is no particular danger in writing what I will call, for want of a better term, 'serious fiction.' In writing popular, commercial fiction, there is nothing but danger. The commercial writer is easy to bribe, easy to subvert, and he knows it. I have felt this much more strongly in the last two or three years than ever before. But if this is true, it also means that the commercial writer who can tell the truth has achieved a great deal more than any 'serious' writer can hope for; he can tell the truth and still keep up with...
...would no doubt like to replace Nakasone as Japan's Prime Minister. One of the top three contenders: Finance Minister Noboru Takeshita, 62, who belongs to the large faction of ailing former Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka. Though Tanaka was convicted in 1983 on charges of accepting a $1.6 million bribe from Lockheed in 1977, his faction remains very powerful...
...spectacle of a Supreme Court Justice taking a bribe in public is shocking. But that is what happened at Georgetown's Trinity Theater when Justice William Rehnquist joined the Washington Savoyards Ltd. for a surprise walk-on during their production of Gilbert and Sullivan's Patience. + Appropriately cast as the Solicitor, Rehnquist made his one-night-only appearance during the finale of the first act. Having been persuaded by the heroine to rig a raffle so that she can win the man she loves, Rehnquist stepped forward and, with much judicial flourish, presented a large bowl filled with extra tickets...
Under cross-examination, Williams admitted that he had tried to bribe former Nevada Senator Howard Cannon in 1979 to block deregulation of the trucking industry. Williams was convicted of attempted bribery in 1982, and is scheduled to start serving a ten-year prison term next month. He acknowledged that he was testifying in hopes of getting the sentence modified. Asked to explain the contradiction be- tween his admission now and his profession of innocence under oath at his trial, Williams had a simple explanation: "I lied...
...American way of life has been corrupted by bad guys, who bribe politicians and don't get convicted of crimes. Cure, which is responsible only to the President, has been created to get rid of this filth. Let them meet their maker, as they say in the gun-slingin' trade...