Word: bribes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...party composed of strong and combative factions, this led to open vote buying, bribery and scandal. With former Premier Kakuei Tanaka now on trial in the Lockheed influence-peddling scandal, the L.D.P. decided to try to clean up its image as a party of feuding bosses and "black mist" (bribe money) by choosing their leader this time in a kind of national primary in which all 1.5 million party members would be eligible to vote (87% did). Fukuda emphasized his foreign policy accomplishments, such as the recent ratification of a peace treaty with China. Ohira, who as party secretary-general...
...Kaplan success story is a combination of Horatio Alger hype and pure chutzpah. He grew up in Brooklyn, son of a plumbing contractor and a housewife. At James Madison High School, he became enamored to teaching, and recalls now that he used to bribe his stickball buddies to listen to him practice teaching. But while he was enrolled at City College of New York, the tables began to turn...
...tell my defense to take it easy for the first three quarters and you can go up 22-6 [I'll bribe Bosnic into missing an extra point]. Then we'll exchange touch-downs and I'll take out Larry Brown and put in one of my reserve quarterbacks. Someone with a name people can remember. Ah, George Hodakowski...
...reeking of vodka and filth. Charity cases are left to die. The town cop is a chronic alcoholic who terrorizes the populace. The postmaster opens all the mail and pockets the letters that amuse him. As for the mayor, he is an embezzler who never forgets a good bribe...
...known as the "Red Major" when he was a member of Gamal Abdel Nasser's Revolutionary Command Council. Among the leftist charges: much of the $10 billion given to Egypt by Saudi Arabia and other oil-rich Arab states since 1973 has never reached the people; a bribe of $1.5 million was paid to a government official to get a hotel project started near the Pyramids; the army sold a plane, a gift from another Arab state, to an influential Egyptian at half its value. The government has routinely denied the charges...