Word: bribes
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...chemical or biological agents that bin Laden has been trying to buy from it. Agents have also been trying to entice Pashtun warlords to turn against the Taliban with offers of cash. But they have had limited success. One reason: drug trafficking in the region has driven up bribe prices, and many are not impressed by agency offers...
...students are absent from the stands. Instead, alumni crowd the grassy parking lot behind the football stadium with shrimp cocktails and wine; they are the most significant contributors to the scattered presence in and around the stadium. Are my peers and I waiting for a six-digit salary to bribe us into giving up meetings and work to show a little pride and have fun with each other? What are we waiting...
...innocents swept up in dragnets. CIA agents have been roaming southern and eastern Afghanistan with bags full cash, trying to entice Pashtun warlords to turn against the Taliban. But the agents have had limited success, according to intelligence sources. One reason: drug trafficking in the region has driven up bribe prices and many provincial chiefs who?ve grown rich on it aren?t impressed by agency offers...
...their ancestral village of Kot Addu, Durrani explains in My Feudal Lord, "the Khars were the law." Fakhra's family filed a complaint with the Karachi police after the acid attack, but no arrest was ever made. When Durrani heard in July that Bilal Khar was trying to bribe Fakhra's family to withdraw the complaint, she confronted them. "Do not fear him," she warned the family. "Fear me!" (The complaint remains in force.) Durrani wants justice. "I'm looking for accountability," she says. "Fakhra is a symbol of the disorder of my country and any other Muslim country where...
...same parties and were united by the shared frustrations of doing business among the corruption and cronyism of Laos. One expat, on the condition of anonymity, says: "If you want to get anything achieved here, you have to pay everyone involved. If you want a phone line installed, you bribe the clerk, the manager and the lineman. And even then it probably won't work...