Word: bribes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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SENTENCED. GIORGIO ARMANI, 62, fashion designer; to a 20-day suspended jail term under a plea bargain on charges involving an alleged $197,000 bribe to tax police; in Milan...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "We need a Congressman in Washington who will cut costs rather than bribe us with pork, who will cut spending rather than raise taxes and who will cut the deficit...
...scale back such programs and look around for more to prune. Most important, Kennedy, in his famous "ask not" quotation and elsewhere, asked the American people to participate in the governing of their country and to make sacrifices for the good of the nation; our politicians believe they must bribe the voters to get elected...
...once a challenge and a bribe. For at the center of Dole's campaign for the next two months will be the economic plan that would cut an average family's taxes by $1,400. Having spent the past two years spilling blood over what spending would have to be cut to help balance the budget and having spent his political life arguing that work has to come before play, Dole spun around and embraced Jack Kemp and his supply-side optimism for reasons more tactical than spiritual. He may still not believe it will work, but he can believe...
...title of your article "The Bucks Start Here" should have been "Bribery Starts Here." While it is illegal in the U.S. to bribe a police officer, influencing a politician by using so-called soft money seems to be perfectly O.K. Why should I bother to vote, knowing that elected officials are like tools bought by giant corporations to manipulate the underclass? On Election Day, I'm going to stay in my small shop, where I make barely enough money to survive. Maybe by working those hours instead of wasting them going to the polls, I will be able...