Word: bribes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have no explicit proof that bribes were taken because nobody is stupid enough to write a receipt for a bribe." --Antonio Cartana, a city ombudsperson of Buenos Aires, Argentina, on an investigation of alleged bribes to municipal inspectors, as quoted in The New York Times...
...with the decline of living standards and the complete isolation of North Korea. Chung Kee Hea, 52, said he held a senior party job but still could barely feed his family. Last December he walked across the frozen Yalu, planning to get a job in China and then bribe guards to let his five children and wife join him. When he realized it was difficult to make a living on the run in China, he moved on to South Korea. The danger, Chung readily admits, is that his family, like that of any defector, may be imprisoned or even executed...
...general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, complained about a "long and complex, difficult road" to be traveled during the five years it will take before Pyongyang opens its suspect sites to inspection. Bringing the accord into full effect will take a decade. Some critics called the pact a bribe, but if it works, it will defuse one of the worst threats to world peace -- and without the bloody war that might have had to be fought to end North Korea's nuclear program immediately...
Upon entering the house, partygoers were given a stack of phony dollars. During the party, students used the money to "bribe" others to remove articles of clothing...
...inside jobs. Deputy Interior Minister Mikhail Yegorov told Western officials at a conference in Germany that he believed the 6 grams of plutonium found in that country in May had been stolen by officials of the Russian Atomic Energy Ministry. In other cases, Russian gangsters will step in and bribe or coerce those with access to fissionable materials to steal them...