Word: bribing
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Bruce Collier, assistant dean of the College, said yesterday he "cannot imagine an action less likely to influence University policy." He compared the boycott of the College Fund to a "bribe," and said he "cannot imagine taking a bribe to reduce crowding in a House...
Prince Bernhard, the globetrotting royal businessman accused of being on the take in the Lockheed scandal (TIME, Feb. 23), was charged last week with doing some palm greasing of his own. The Netherlands' leading newspaper, Amsterdam's Telegraaf, implicated Bernhard in a $12 million bribe paid 25 years ago to the late dictator Juan Peron and other Argentine officials to clinch a $100 million railroad-car contract for the Dutch firm Werkspoor. The bribe, which was authorized by the Dutch State Bank and approved by the government, also included the gift of a deluxe presidential train...
...arrive in the Soviet capital the family felt the oppressiveness of the Soviet bureaucracy. When they are finally given an apartment after waiting week for an opening, the family finds itself at the mercy of UpDK, the organization which supposedly handles the needs of foreigners--Leona Schecter had to bribe the UpDK carpenters with an agreed amount of vodka to get them to repair her apartment. While most Soviet citizens sincerely sing praises of communism, like the carpenters they are never ones to spurn the occasional niceties of capitalism that may float their...
...bravo to those business executives who bring in profitable orders from abroad [Feb. 23]. And if the bribe is tacked onto the selling price, further kudos are in order...
Payola is the name of the game in business. The company that doesn't "bribe" its customers in one way or another is probably a statistic in bankruptcy court...