Word: bribed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There is a group practicing in Sanders Theatrethat week," Feeney said. "But we're trying to worksomething out with them, bribe them with freetickets, whatever...
Even so, any break in so murderous a conflict is welcome. And the truce in Sudan well illustrates the strange phenomenon of Carter diplomacy. This time, at least, nobody is likely to denounce it as an unconscionable bribe to an outlaw state, as some did the North Korean agreement Carter got started last June--or as helping to legitimize a band of killers, the view some took of the cease-fire he brokered in Bosnia in December. Nor will he be accused of undermining official U.S. policy, a charge still heard six months after his last-minute success in paving...
...Winners] WINNIE MANDELA Judge in her bribe case disallows documents taken from her home...
France's counterintelligence service, the Directorate of Territorial Surveillance (DST), had been tracking the spying since 1992, according to Le Monde. A female CIA officer and her male partner first tried to bribe a member of parliament with 500-franc notes to reveal France's negotiating position on world-trade talks, when Washington was pressing Paris to lower agricultural subsidies and open its television-broadcast market to U.S. programs. Another senior official in the Ministry of Communications was offered cash for intelligence on telecommunications and audiovisual policy. A technician for France-Telecom, the French telephone network, was also recruited...
...Croce, her essay is nothing if not a declaration of independence from victim art. Some of her supporters have pointed out that feelings of pity or guilt can be used by artists as a bribe, just as an unearned emotion of political solidarity was often used in the 1930s. But novelist Reynolds Price, who has survived spinal cancer and last year published an acclaimed memoir about his experience (A Whole New Life), wonders if Still/Here represents a new body of art that will be increasingly hard to ignore. "There are a tremendous number of people who survive in ways that...