Word: bribed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...everyone who owns an auto-and there are now 15 million passenger cars on Soviet roads-is a permanent user of the parallel market. While it could take weeks to have a car repaired and months to obtain spare parts, affluent drivers can quickly get what they need by bribing mechanics and service-station attendants. A bottle of vodka is the minimum and usually compulsory bribe...
Although every Soviet citizen is in principle entitled to free medical care, hospitals are jammed and nursing care is inadequate. As a result, patients who can afford it, or who are desperate enough, make private financial arrangements with doctors and bribe hospital administrators for admission and special services. In small towns, doctors are frequently inundated with gifts of eggs, chickens and other produce brought them by peasants from nearby collective farms...
...Venezuela, Alberto Flores, No. 2 man in the country's delegation to the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, resigned his post in order "to be free to defend himself." He is suspected of being among seven officials who allegedly accepted a bribe from Occidental Petroleum Co. in return for drilling concessions...
...been going on in plain sight for nearly a decade. But then to think that giving money to anti-Communist politicians would stem the rising red tide raises misunderstanding to the level of folly. Admittedly, Italian politicians are a notoriously corrupt bunch. Even the PC has taken a bribe or two in its day from large American companies (it was disclosed last year that Gulf had contributed several million dollars to PC election campaigns). But of all the politicians in Italy the DC anti-Communists to whom the money was presumably targeted are perhaps the most corrupt. One recently retired...
Until the Lockheed revelations, the payoff with the most explosive consequences was United Brands' 1974 payment of a $1.25 million bribe to a high official in Honduras to reduce an export tax on bananas. The bribe was uncovered by an SEC investigation into the suicide of United Chairman Eli Black, who swung his briefcase to smash a hole in a window of his office on the 44th floor of New York City's Pan Am Building and then jumped to his death. The disclosure helped bring on a Honduran coup that overthrew the government of President Oswaldo...