Word: briberyâ
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...more because of the size and clumsiness of the bribery, the prominence of the receivers and the potential damage to friendly governments than because of the fact of the payoffs. On a less monumental scale, these managers assert, dash, baksheesh, pots de vin, la mordida?in a word, bribery???is an ancient and accepted practice, necessary in many countries to get any business done...
Whatever excuses might be offered for bribery???Pentagon pressure, foreign extortion, "Everybody does it"?the practice has become intolerable. Tips to customs officials to perform duties that they ought to carry out anyway might be unremarkable ethically, but payments to Cabinet ministers to put a U.S. company's interests ahead of those of their own country are totally immoral and strike at the very basis of democratic government...
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