Word: bribing
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...trashed buildings. Some of Baby Love's friends did not live through the summer. A cheeky dude like him risks death or injury every time he steps outside. Being small does not help. He was always getting beaten up until he learned to steal. Now he can bribe would-be assailants with reefer. He sometimes spends $20 a day on the stuff...
...cracked the case by first amassing evidence against bribe-paying contractors. Two of the contractors-Lumber Mill Owner Dorothy Griffin and Building Materials Salesman Guy Moore-were persuaded to help investigators catch fellow suppliers and the recipients of their largesse. Scores of transactions-conducted in pickup trucks and county maintenance barns-were tape-recorded. Moore claims that in 28 years of business, he arranged, on the average, more than one bribe every working...
...Johnson wouldn't take a bribe," says George Reedy, his former press secretary...
...Abscam made similar appeals in his court and lost. Of the six, only one, Michael Myers of Philadelphia, has been expelled from the House. Two others resigned and three lost their seats in elections. Williams believes that his case is the strongest: tapes show that he refused a bribe from FBI agents and that a bureau informant coached him to "tell anything" to the sheik. Should his appeal fail, Williams will probably resign. Expulsion, as the Senator glumly admits, would mean an unwanted "note in the history books," though it would not affect his pension-a generous...
...anthology of the author's excesses. The flaccid, irritating soap opera is jerry-built around the hatreds of a wealthy family in Washington, D.C. A senior bureaucrat, Maurice Halleck, head of the "Commission for the Ministry of Justice," has died, apparently by suicide, after seeming to confess to bribe taking. Halleck's two nearly grown children, drug-frazzled Kirsten and lard-witted Owen, vow to wreak vengeance on their gorgeous mother Isabel, and their father's best friend from boyhood, whom they take to be the killers. Here, as elsewhere, the author has far more energy than...