Word: bribed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other hand, 21% said they would bribe a city inspector to expedite matters. And while 79% considered their own ethics higher than those of their peers, 73% agreed that the rhetoric about business ethics exceeds the reality for most companies...
...battlefield. Says Sajid Rizvi, a London- based Middle East analyst: "Don't forget, government officials have children too. They are as worried as everybody else that their sons will go off and never come back." Virtually every family that has money or political connections is desperately attempting to bribe or contrive another way to get a young son out of the country. Often they ask Westerners to help arrange visas for prolonged trips abroad. Explains a Londoner who has friends in Iran: "They realize that the war is going to last a long time and that eventually...
...such an atmosphere, corruption thrives. One prosperous bazaari, who lives in a villa on a tree-lined street above the center of Tehran, says he can still bribe a policeman when the officer stops him late at night in his Mercedes-Benz for drunken driving. A diplomat discloses that he pays off local police before giving a dinner party and afterward finds them in his kitchen dining on the leftovers and drinking his vodka...
Send this man of steel out to terminate the Terminator. He's clean and lean, with the soul of a blue machine -- an incorruptible, indestructible cop. Shoot him and he barely gets dented; bribe him and he turns you in. With a gait as clangorous as "Duke" Wayne's, he walks down the mean streets of tomorrow's Detroit, scaring felons with the cool metallic whisper: "Your move, creep." Who is this electronic enforcer? Flint Beastwood? Not quite. Because somewhere inside his mind's computer circuitry, images linger: of a smiling wife, of an adoring son, of the too human...
...agents of the Drug Enforcement Administration were recruited to contact informants they had developed while tracing Middle Eastern heroin traffic. A longtime informant told them he had located the people holding Buckley and another hostage. The captors would let the two go, he said, for a $200,000 bribe...