Word: corrupt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...constitution, effectively dissolved the country?s center-right-controlled parliament. The protests of opposition legislators won?t resonate with the electorate, who are still overwhelmingly behind the 45-year-old former paratrooper and failed coup leader. "Most Venezuelans support Chavez because the country?s traditional parties were so corrupt," says TIME Latin America bureau chief Tim McGirk. But enthused though they may be by Chavez's promise to share the country?s oil wealth with the impoverished majority, they may be disappointed in him in the long run. "Chavez may be able to use oil revenues to provide health, education...
...elite group like the Spetsnaz was held together by a belief in the system, as more than half a dozen soldiers interviewed by TIME recall. No longer. "I swore allegiance to Russia," says Alexei. "I don't identify the present regime with Russia." Many feel equally alienated from their corrupt commanders. A conversation with Sergei, a Spetsnaz noncommissioned officer, frequently drifts off into descriptions of how senior officers are stealing the funds for the upkeep of soldiers or even the barracks provided for them. Ivan, a former senior officer who suffered multiple concussions from artillery in Chechnya, explains that...
...five years of entrapment. You are trapped between the kid you once were and the person you are destined to become. This constant state of uncertainty is stressful not only for teens but for adults as well. Parents try hard to keep their kids away from things that might corrupt their future, whether drugs, alcohol or violent movies. But placing strict restrictions on teens will accomplish only two things: really, really annoy them and make the temptation for rebellion greater...
...point staying in temporary quarters above the A.A. clubhouse on 24th Street in Manhattan. In 1940 John D. Rockefeller Jr. held an A.A. dinner and was impressed enough to create a trust to provide Wilson with $30 a week--but no more. The tycoon felt that money would corrupt the group's spirit...
...great threats to civilization in the second half of this century: nuclear war and communist dictatorship. In the dark, bitter depths of the cold war, Sakharov's voice rang out. "A miracle occurred," Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote, "when Andrei Sakharov emerged in the Soviet state, among the swarms of corrupt, venal, unprincipled intelligentsia." By the time of his death in 1989, this humble physicist had influenced the spread of democratic ideals throughout the communist world. His moral challenge to tyranny, his faith in the individual and the power of reason, his courage in the face of denunciation and, finally, house arrest...