Word: corruptability
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hold on popular support is slowly slipping, and the country is on the brink of chaos. Though she has painstakingly restored democracy, she has not been able to usher in paradise. Instead, the threat of apocalypse hangs over the Philippines. As Aquino tries to rid the country of the corrupt legacy of Ferdinand Marcos, an increasing number of Filipinos fear that her government is running out of steam. "We expected decency in government. We expected efficiency," says Antonio Oposa, a lawyer in the central Philippine city of Cebu. "Maybe that's too much to expect of one woman." He adds...
Aquino's mean-momma posture is unlikely to produce results unless she gets some help. Unfortunately, she must still rely on a corrupt, underpaid and dispirited bureaucracy to carry out her plans and a bankrupt treasury to finance them. She has to go to a bickering Congress for approval of major initiatives. But Aquino now realizes she will have to work hard to keep the popularity that has buoyed her through the travails of the past 19 months. Said the President bitterly last week: "The honeymoon is over, isn't it? But I am not sorry. The sooner...
...witness, Richard Flynn, a lawyer for Cablevision Systems Corp., did testify that Zaccaro told him in 1981, "It's going to cost you money" to get the contract. Flynn said he interpreted the statement not as an extortion attempt, however, but as a warning "about a process that was corrupt...
...mass grave on the capital's outskirts. Members of the murdered President's family watched the burial in tears. A populist who religiously consulted with village leaders before embarking on new policies, Sankara made personal probity a point of honor in a country that has had more than one corrupt leader since winning independence in 1960. He boasted that he was the world's lowest-paid chief of state, with a salary of just $450 a month...
Those class lines, however, are not so easy to cross. Pacot, a run-down but still chic neighborhood, is three miles and another world away from La Saline's slums. In a corner here and there, the brittle, corrupt surface of Papa Doc's Haiti still glitters. Guard dogs run along the tops of security walls, and chauffeured Mercedes Benz slip in and out of driveways leading to Gothic gingerbread houses...