Word: bribed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Antonio Di Pietro, a prosecutor who became a national hero in Italy for his campaign against bribe-taking politicians, asked to be reassigned in a protest against a decree issued by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's right-wing government. The decree would eliminate the prosecutors' ability to detain corruption suspects, a powerful tool used against thousands of prominent citizens...
...shown an interest in politics since the age of six, when he began reading news of current events and talking about them with his father. When he was 11, the Teapot Dome scandal prompted him to announce to his mother, "I'll be a lawyer they can't bribe." The practice of law in Whittier was hardly so inspiring. Taken into the firm of a family friend, he spent his first day dusting the books in the office library, then bungled his first case, losing all his client's money in a real estate deal. But he persevered, began joining...
...worst offenders are the domestic carriers. For a bribe of about 20,000 rubles on top of the price of the ticket, most attendants and pilots will be only too happy to accommodate latecomers by jamming the aisles and cargo bins with standing room only. On many flights, preflight safety briefings are nonexistent; smoking is permitted before, during and after takeoff; access to emergency exits and even the toilets is blocked by everything from sacks of potatoes to wire cages filled with twittering birds...
Wednesday: In an interview with a Czech newspaper, Zhirinovsky warned that Czechs "will be forced to ... clean the shoes of German officers" ... Thursday: Visiting St. Petersburg, he claimed to have rejected a $1 billion bribe from an Asian country to help it "get some islands." He also vowed that "barbarian peoples" in southern Russia would have their villages destroyed by napalm ... Sunday: He planned to take part in a vigorous 40-km (25-mile) cross-country skiing competition in Moscow...
Clintonite cleared of taking bribe from Vietnamese businessman...