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...trade a horseback ride any time for the opportunity to teach the Bible," says Bus Minister Jim Vineyard, who marshals the weekly ingathering. "We've been accused of bribing kids to come to church, but a bribe is a payment to get someone to do wrong. We're getting them to do right...
Citizens today can rattle off long lists of immoralities and immoralists. A committee sponsored by Catholic bishops in 1974 printed a typical roll call of contemporary villains: shoplifters, trashers, blue-collar time-clock cheaters, white-collar expense-account padders, tax evaders, political bribe takers, perjurers, economic exploiters, sexual revolutionists, the maritally unfaithful, pornographers, irresponsible mass communicators and those responsible for violent crime. But a mere listing does not do justice to the sense of disease and malaise that is in our hearts, the disappointment and disgust often felt between generations as moral standards are challenged or forgotten, the bewilderment...
...acquired another dubious distinction. Having admitted under prodding by the Securities and Exchange Commission that it has slipped at least $22 million under the table to foreign government officials and political organizations, the company issued a defiant statement that sounded almost like an assertion of the right to bribe...
There are a million and a half prisoners [in Soviet jails and camps]; victims of a corrupt judicial machinery that is run by state authorities and local "mafias," they did not bribe the right officials at the right time. There are as many as 10,000 political prisoners in the U.S.S.R. and even more people persecuted for their religious convictions. At the same time, only a small number of people, mostly concentrated in two or three cities, make up what may be called "the democratic movement." But their very existence within the monolith of Soviet society is of great ethical...
...Altogether, USDA has licensed about 3,000 inspectors, who earn an average salary of $10,000 a year; their relatively modest incomes are often supplemented by overtime wages and seasonal bonuses. Since loading delays can cost shipowners up to $20,000 a day, it is often more economical to bribe inspectors to approve their ships than take the time to clean the vessels. Similarly, grain companies lacking required amounts of a particular grade may be tempted to substitute lower-quality grain and offer bribes to inspectors to grade it falsely...