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Word: corruptability (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...defendants are all members of an anti-black, anti-Semitic, anti- Government hate group known variously as the Order, the Silent Brotherhood, the White American Revolutionary Army and the Aryan Resistance Movement. A 93- page indictment charges 23 members with violating the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, a statute the Government has hitherto used against organized crime and terrorists. Ten of the accused had pleaded guilty, and an eleventh changed his plea to guilty last week; at . least eight of these have drawn 20-year prison terms. One of the 23 has never been caught, and another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Order in Court | 9/23/1985 | See Source »

...potential for redemption through experience and common sense. Each reflects the controlling intelligence of the film's writers and director, who want to celebrate the antic resourcefulness of American individualism while satirizing the gaseous platitudes that are too often used to motivate and justify it and sometimes corrupt it. Their work may have the broad manner (and the marketing strategy) of a teen pic, but do not be misled. One has to have lived through the early '60s to appreciate what a good, smart comedy Volunteers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Up-Country Without a Paddle Volunteers | 9/9/1985 | See Source »

...values, are instinctively appealing. Is he, as his followers proclaim, the truest and bravest voice in the whole Fundamentalist movement, crying out against the rising tide of sin and sleaze? Or is he, with his swift mind and glib tongue, a modern Elmer Gantry, a power preacher with a corrupt soul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Jerry Falwell Spreads the Word | 9/2/1985 | See Source »

...COURSE THESE strikes are mere ripples on the pond of U.S. capitalism, compared to the days of high surf in the 1940s and 1950s. Today, the American labor movement (if you can even call it that) is practically at a standstill. Unions have taken on bad names through corrupt leadership practices and their lack of accountability to members. Union membership dropped steadily over recent years and continues to do so today. Nevertheless, while unions currently can be as mean-and-nasty as the businesses they struggle to gain concessions from, they constitute the worker's sole voice in the face...

Author: By Charles C. Matthews, | Title: Whose Recovery? | 8/6/1985 | See Source »

...there is. INS officials are among the critics: they estimate that 30% of permanent-residence petitions are fraudulent, with corrupt or incompetent lawyers often to blame. To have much hope of gaining a coveted green card, an immigrant must be related to a U.S. citizen or permanent resident, qualified to fill a job for which there is a shortage of applicants in the U.S. or be a refugee facing persecution at home. Each category has bred its schemes and near scams. The easiest and most popular is the sham marriage. "Some are so phony they don't pass the laugh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: A Booming But Tainted Specialty | 7/8/1985 | See Source »

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