Word: corrupt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...segment of the Monitor Channel's ongoing Homeland series on Russia recently demonstrated that the OBKhSS is one of the most corrupt state agencies in Russia...
...average middle-aged American has lived through astonishingly rapid social change. Civil rights movements have uprooted corrupt political systems and brought security to people who used to live in fear. Higher education has expanded beyond a narrow elite. The structure of society no longer depends on -- in fact it deplores -- the orderly confines of having everyone "know his place." These facts are so overarching that we tend to take them for granted, but they are inherently more dramatic than the domestic squabbles and psychological revelations at the heart of most U.S. theater. It is the daring, and impressively achieved, ambition...
Cambridge adopted PR in 1942, not to ensure the representation of minority views, but to reform a corrupt city government...
...last week when former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke began battling roguish ex-Governor Edwin Edwards for the keys to the executive mansion. The campaign threatens to bare the cantankerous soul of a state that is often derided as America's banana republic, a Third World realm of corrupt and crazy politicians, wild parties and bizarre customs. Yet even Louisiana has never seen anything this weird. Says John Maginnis, publisher of the Louisiana Political Review: "We're in a new dimension of time and space. We're in the twilight zone." Sadly, this excursion may well cost the state...
...these are bad, of course, but things were sleazy and corrupt long before the first blackjack table graced the board-walk. Now, at least, there are free parking lots, clean bathrooms and lots of places to get ice cream. It is a wonderful place to spend the summer. I look at gambling as a positive addition to Atlantic City's charm. It will probably do the same for the rather bleak landscapes in North Dakota where there is nothing else as exciting, and for suburban Connecticut where there is nothing but Yale...