Word: corrupt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Agent Benedict Tisa was in his third day of hammering cross-examination by Defense Attorney Howard Weitzman, and he was beginning to get rattled. Tisa had masqueraded as a corrupt banker in the Government scam that snared Auto Magnate John Zachary De Lorean, currently on trial in Los Angeles for conspiring to distribute $24 million worth of cocaine to save his failing sports-car company. Weitzman questioned Tisa about the log he kept of the four-month investigation that culminated in De Lorean's arrest in October 1982. Some of the entries in the 28-page handwritten document were...
...struggles preceding independence, Toure allied himself with the movement for African nationalism. He was instrumental in abolishing Guinea's tribal chieftaincies, which he considered corrupt, and in establishing more than 4,000 elected village councils. When the nation's first election was held in 1958, he was swept into office. "revolutionary socialism" to industrialize the economy, and he turned to the Soviet Union for assistance. But Guinea remained beset by chronic underproduction, inflation and black-marketeering. In the mid-'70s, Toure made a bow toward the West...
...first 150 pages of The Aquitaine Progression we know what the conspiracy is; we know what Converse has to do. The other 500 pages seem more an exercise in how well Ludlum can invent traps for Converse and how much we can believe in his paranoid vision of a corrupt world where anyone can be bought and everyone is being watched. The traps Ludlum invents are singularly unoriginal. At one point, Ludlum even has Converse traveling around Europe disguised as a priest...
...GENERALLY THERAPISTS are well adjusted to the society in which they live. I don't think that's a good thing," says Jeffrey M. Masson '64 "I think that the society in which we live is pretty decadent, corrupt. And what one really wants to teach people is to recognize that and take some sort of stand against it. I would teach people to question everything, don't take any shit from anybody and don't listen to authority...
...think I have a tendency to become disillusioned. I become initially very enthusiastic about a field and then as I discover the realities of the field I become disillusioned," he says. "I didn't believe that psychoanalysis was corrupt. I believe...