Word: bribed
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...pesos and dollars that often come from relatives living in the U.S. In Havana vendors go door to door selling meat and milk at 40 to 50 times the official cost. Imported TVs, priced at $150 apiece, slip out the back door of government warehouses for an additional $10 bribe. Illegal antennas bought with dollars pick up U.S. channels. So pervasive is the dollar that workers in the beach resort of Varadero are now permitted to use their dollar tips to buy imported goods at an experimental store. Later this year, the government will open two more dollar-only stores...
...convicted on all charges of conspiracy, accepting a bribe and violation of banking laws, Young could serve up to four years in prison, according to Gerald McKelvey, special assistant to the New York district attorney...
...case against Loucks was made public by Richard Fuisz, a former Baxter employee who says his services were "terminated" because he refused to pay a bribe...
...Italian politics for half a century and seven times Prime Minister, who is under investigation for corruption and for having ties to the Mafia. He has denied both accusations. The possibility of a Mafia connection at the pinnacle of power opened the door on far more sinister misbehavior than bribe taking. Suddenly, high-level murders, including those of former Prime Minister Aldo Moro following his kidnapping by the Red Brigades in 1978 and of General Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa, head of anti-Mafia operations in Sicily, in 1982, were being scrutinized anew. So was the embezzlement, allegedly by Christian Democrats...
...compromise proposed on Sunday met strong and immediate rejection. The nine-point plan had offered a sop to the Congress, later described as an attempted "bribe," by letting them keep their privileges and salaries until their term ends in 1995. The Deputies condemned the plan as a cynical attempt to circumvent the Congress. "Only cynical people could have come up with this," raged conservative Deputy Gennadi Benov. "We could accept this only if we are a Congress of political suicides." Opposition Deputy Vladimir Isakov immediately proposed an impeachment motion and said to Khasbulatov, "We are sick and tired of your...