Word: corrupt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this revival, the bitterness and irony that should contribute to what little comedy has transcended the mist of the ages is lost in an atmosphere of comraderie. With cuckolding and a corrupt clergyman taken so casually by the performers, the plot of the play seems trivial...
Compromise never comes easily in battles over the environment. It is simpler and more gratifying for everyone to denounce the opposition as fanatical or corrupt or under the control of sinister interests. So it seemed a bit of a miracle last week when the Senate approved broad new legislation against air pollution, the first since 1977, and the House Energy and Commerce Committee reported out a similar bill two days later. Both advocates and enemies of tighter pollution controls denounced the new legislation and vowed to fight on, but a final Senate-House compromise version is expected to reach...
...current system of financing congressional campaigns is corrupt and special-interest PAC contributions are at the heart of the problem," said Common Cause President Fred Wertheimer. "Comprehensive campaign finance reform legislation must be enacted this year to restore integrity to congressional decisions and fairness to congressional elections...
...Philadelphia, more than any filmmaker, influenced me," says Lynch. "It's the sickest, most corrupt, decaying, fear-ridden city imaginable. I was very poor and living in bad areas. I felt like I was constantly in danger. But it was so fantastic at the same time." He lived across the street from the city morgue, where he was fascinated by the empty body bags hung on pegs. "The bags had a big zipper, and they'd open the zipper and shoot water into the bags with big hoses. With the zipper open and the bags sagging on the pegs...
...well aware of the reputation that my home state--the only state wholly contained within Appalachia--has among the rest of the United States. West Virginia is beset by chronically high poverty and unemployment, corrupt and incompetent local political machines, geographic isolation and a long history of exploitation by irresponsible coal companies...