Word: bribe
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...children at night and know that they are fed and clothed and safe from harm; that we can say what we think, write what we think, without hearing a sudden knock on the door; that we can have an idea and start our own business without paying a bribe; that we can participate in the political process without fear of retribution; and that our votes will be counted...
...Nowhere is the struggle more apparent than in China, where many factory owners and some less reputable audit consultants have figured out dodges to get around auditors. On one Chinese-language website, factory bosses swap tips and ask questions such as: "Is it really a must to bribe auditors in order to pass audits?" The response: "You must first raise the standards of your falsified documents. Otherwise, auditors might not dare to take money from...
...Mirsky described one day when protests were gearing up and Bogert convinced him and two female correspondents to bribe a taxi driver to take them to the countryside outside Beijing, where she had heard there was a column of tanks in a village. When they saw the tanks, Bogert proposed climbing atop them to ask the soldiers inside why they were in the village...
...that he has, over the years, accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash stuffed into envelopes from New York financier Morris Talansky. Olmert does not deny receiving the envelopes, but he insists they were campaign contributions that he never used personally. Talansky has denied that he tried to bribe Olmert...
...they are from their predecessors. Díaz, Lahiri's fellow Pulitzer winner, writes wild, slangy, funny prose laced with Dominican Spanish and Star Trek references. His determination to entertain is almost vaudevillian. Lahiri's stories are grave and quiet and slow, in the 19th century manner. They don't bribe you with humor or plot twists or flashy language; they extract a steep up-front investment of time from the reader before they return their hard, dense nuggets of truth. It's difficult to quote from her stories: they refuse to sum themselves up with a neat final epiphany...