Word: corruptability
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Francisco with its 400,000 souls was the undisputed gem of the Pacific Coast, a bustling, pungent, polyglot city enjoying corrupt government, splendid libraries and wonderful restaurants. As a hub of international finance and society, it rivaled New York City and Paris, and it took perverse pride in its reputation, well earned by the depravity of the carnal Barbary Coast, as "the wickedest city in the world." The evening of April 17, when the nonpareil Enrico Caruso sang in Carmen at the Grand Opera House before repairing to the fabulous Palace Hotel (a telephone and bath for every room...
...dizzying pace. They moved so fast that within weeks about 1,000 makeshift saloons were doing business and political fighting had broken out again. Ex- Mayor (also ex-Governor and ex-U.S. Senator) James Phelan, who lost a fortune in the disaster, led an attack on the corrupt municipal government with one hand and with the other helped get the reconstruction moving. Checks drawn on San Francisco banks were all but useless right after the quake, but within six weeks every banking house in the city was back in operation...
Freed by Mikhail Gorbachev to report on the corrupt and famous, Soviet journalists are busy pushing glasnost toward its tabloid outer limits -- tracking down space visitors and exploring psychic mysteries. Science takes a whirl with fantasy. Fiction runs away with the facts. Humanoids abduct humans...
EARLIER this month, the Supreme Court refused to hear the appeal of 26 Philadelphia anti-abortion protesters who were fined $108,000 under the federal Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO...
...more than two years, the U.S. Government has encouraged the Panamanian military to overthrow its corrupt commander and turn him over to American authorities to stand trial on drug charges. Last week, after a group of rebellious officers actually had Noriega under their guns, debate raged in Washington about whether the characteristically cautious Bush Administration could have -- and should have -- done more to help the coup's leaders. Senators, senior officials and military officers alike wondered: Had the U.S. fumbled its best opportunity to seize Noriega? Or had it sidestepped a diplomatically dangerous and probably ineffective intervention...