Word: bribes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...much concern over what passengers cannot carry that we seem to have lost sight of the problem of cargo security. Since anything can now be secreted in a toothpaste tube, isn't there a higher risk of a small bomb being placed in the cargo hold? A bribe put in the hands of a baggage handler might be enough to do it. Chadwick Hall London The U.S. government keeps Americans in a perpetual state of fear because citizens are easier to manipulate when they are in that condition. The same thing happens in Britain to a degree. As long...
...selectiveness of his respect for truth, scholarly integrity, and equal justice became exquisitely self-evident.The university is the one place in U.S. society intended to guarantee the freedom to state the truth based upon evidence, logic, and self-scrutiny. Here, no bully can batter us, no political action committee can bribe us, and no boss can fire us for expressing a contrary opinion. The truths that we infer are subject to no test of patriotism or loyalty. Without such freedom of expression, we risk leaving life-and-death conversations to the people least able to engage tête...
...During his Harvard career, Daniloff says, his father saw his son’s prospects for advancement through those eyes.“When I applied for a Rhodes scholarship, he said to me ‘you’ll never get a Rhodes unless you bribe the judges,’” Daniloff recalls.Daniloff neither bribed the judges, nor received the scholarship. But he did fulfill his father’s wish that he get into a final club.“My father, being an immigrant and refugee, was anxious for me to develop strong...
...worth the paper they are written on, Diadema tried to safeguard its enforcers from getting corrupted. For starters, when the four patrol cars go out on each night, only the team leader knows what route they will take. The police and inspectors also ride together, making it hard to bribe one without the knowledge or cooperation of the others. When they come across a bar selling alcohol after hours, they are careful to approach with a minimum of force, a key consideration given all the bombings, shootings and bus burnings this month in the region that killed 186 people...
...which has long been investigating allegations that Jefferson accepted money in exchange for helping businessmen secure deals in Africa, says it had already found $90,000 wrapped in foil in the freezer of Jefferson's apartment and had a videotape of him allegedly accepting $100,000 in bribe money. But when federal agents, who had been trying to get documents from Jefferson for nine months, obtained a warrant and searched his Capitol Hill office, they found an unlikely adversary: House Speaker Dennis Hastert. The Illinois Republican argued that the search violated the separation of powers between the Legislative and Executive...