Word: corrupt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gets worse. Douglas's reign could turn out to be corrupt, full of devious back-door promotional dealings in New York and rigged fights in Vegas. Another prospect--frightening for the new victor, of course--is the return of the dethroned champ with a vengeance. The old guard is down...
...Communist system is corrupt. I am talking not only about the corruption of money. This is secondary. Power is corrupt. Every function depends on the Politburo. Therefore, it is enough in communism just to follow the line from the top and to be rewarded. If someone is intelligent and corrupt, he can easily climb to the top. This is characteristic of communism today. During the revolution, there were at least some people devoted to some aims, willing to suffer, willing to be killed. Now it is the opposite. The people at the top are stupid cowards. Primitive forms of corruption...
...works in first three sections are well-presented, adhering to a clear theme of the power and modernity of the American culture. The artists perceived the United States as an industrial mecca and a military power within which men are mecanical, corrupt, and agressive. This view was supported by the writings of the "muckrakers" and the untamed violence of the "Wild West" lore...
Dennis Peck (Richard Gere) has so many wives and children by his various marriages that he doesn't know what to do. Except steal to support them. And, for relaxation, lure other men's wives into extramarital affairs. He may be + the most thoroughly corrupt (and corrupting) cop in an overcrowded movie field. His response to a departmental investigation is to threaten to seduce the wife of head detective Raymond Avila (Andy Garcia) if Avila doesn't quash the case. No question about it, Internal Affairs is a nasty, sometimes brutal, piece of work. But Gere is hypnotic, writer Henry...
...favors, no excuses." That was the motto Corazon Aquino vowed to follow after her People Power movement toppled the corrupt regime of Ferdinand Marcos. But in the tumultuous four years since Aquino became President, charges of incompetence and graft have increasingly tainted her own government. When rebellious soldiers launched the seventh abortive coup against Aquino on Dec. 1, their most pointed complaints focused on the administration's failure to deliver basic services and on allegations of corruption among the President's wealthy and influential relatives...