Word: bribed
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...among other things, a dissertation on what it means to be an American phony. King Westley--"the pill of the century," as Gable says, a cafe society parasite with the face of a small reptile--wants to marry Ellie for her money and in the end accepts a bribe of $100,000 to go away. King's narcissistic autogyro is a sort of 1930s version of the Osprey, or of those personal motor-scooters-of-the-air that the writer James Fallows envisioned, pre-9/11, as universal transport in a coming yuppie paradise. In Capra the real Americans take...
...consensus could be there, at least in the medical community: In a statement made a few weeks ago, the American Medical Association reversed itself and announced the payments could be ethical as long as the amount is "small enough to be considered a thank-you rather than a bribe...
...sort of place where epidemics are hatched," writes Moscow bureau chief Paul Quinn-Judge in his diary of the past six weeks in Northern Alliance-held Afghanistan, and he's not kidding. The style is Hunter Thompson-with-dysentery as Quinn-Judge comments on the poor sanitation, the bribe-hungry border guards and the recalcitrant military commanders. Quinn-Judge kept a daily dairy of his experiences reporting from the front lines of the war, a place where patience was of the essence because waiting is the main job of war correspondents in Afghanistan. Read excerpts of his diary at time.com...
Twice in the past four years, Northern Alliance commander Rashid Dostum has had to flee Mazar-i-Sharif, the city he once ruled. Once he had to bribe his own men to let him out of town before the Taliban arrived. But last Friday Dostum re-entered the city in triumph. It was Mazar's latest--but perhaps not its last--reversal of fortune...
...invaders, George Dasch, sprinted up to the officer, explaining that they were lost fisherman - and offering a bribe not to say anything, which of course made the Guardsman all the more suspicious. The officer went back to his station and reported the incident, but by then the team of four had made it into town and hopped a train to New York City. There they split into pairs, got apartments, bought clothes and had some nice dinners. Then Dasch did what he had apparently always intended to do: called the FBI to turn them all in. He told the local...