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Last week's GAO study, however, makes plain that the current American law is riddled with complicating ambiguities and shortcomings. Many of the problems arise from confusion over what constitutes a bribe. So-called grease payments, such as fees to get low-level civil servants to perform their bureaucratic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Profits in Big Bribery | 3/16/1981 | See Source »

More confusion surrounds a company's liability under the act for the actions of its foreign agents. If the local representative uses even a part of his commission, as often happens, to bribe officials to keep a deal on track, the act asserts that the U.S. company is responsible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Profits in Big Bribery | 3/16/1981 | See Source »

Confusion momentarily overtook the leaders of the march, however, at the corner of Boylston and South Sts., where some members of the rally tried to divert the marchers to the Kennedy School of Government--contrary to the scheduled route--to protest the appearance of Roy Prosterman, a government land reform...

Author: By Suzanne R. Spring, | Title: Out of the Books, Into the Streets | 3/14/1981 | See Source »

Describing the mood of graduate deans from major American universities as one of "gloomy confusion," Edward L. Keenan, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS), said yesterday that he and his colleagues fear that many fields of research will be crippled by cuts in federal aid proposed...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Educators Fear Cuts in Federal Aid | 3/7/1981 | See Source »

Unfortunately, the drivers did not seek to improve working conditions for the entire Harvard student community but merely aimed for an extra 50 cents per hour in their own pockets. The confusion which continually surrounded their efforts effectively blurred the fact that the drivers had a greater cause to fight...

Author: By Andrew C. Karp, | Title: Shuttle Diplomacy | 3/6/1981 | See Source »

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