Word: bribed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that $200 million carrot may have precisely the opposite effect. Yeltsin endures constant carping that he is too often the marionette of cash-rich Western governments; if he rejects the bill now, even citing constitutional concerns, it will appear to Yeltsin's critics simply that he has taken a bribe. Faced with that quandary, Yeltsin gave Moscow a wide berth Friday and headed off instead to an elite holiday resort on the Volga, some 500 miles southeast of the capital...
That was the worst of a lot of bad options. The Gingriches could have taken out a bank loan, but there aren't any banks unaffected by legislation before Congress. The couple could have borrowed against another book advance, but then the book contract might look like a bribe. A legal defense fund, paid for by private citizens, was ruled out for an obvious reason: Why remind the public again that the rich protect the powerful...
That incivility, especially from a country he considered honorable and sophisticated, helped spur Bronfman into a relentless campaign. "They had bought off groups before, and this was just a bigger bribe," he says. "I realized what they really wanted us to do was to take the money...
...operation known as Operation Greenpalm helped unravel Miami's fiscal madness. The sting uncovered the worst-kept local secret--that to do business with City Hall it is sometimes necessary to offer a "retainer," which non-Miamians might call a bribe. "It was 'Pay me as a consultant, and we'll get you the contract,'" says Assistant U.S. Attorney Wilfredo Fernandez. The Greenpalm began when former Miami finance chief Manohar Surana, caught soliciting a bribe from Unisys in connection with its bid for a $20 million city contract, agreed to wear a microphone for the FBI. Surana caught then city...
...back to being ignored when I argue that the examination for entrance into political-science graduate programs should be reduced to one question: "It is customary for American corporations to give large campaign donations to both parties competing in an election. Discuss this practice without using the word bribe...