Word: corruptability
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...supporting cast, especially Bob Balaban as Rosen, the corrupt FBI man, and Josef Sommer as McAdam, the understanding editor, does a good job and occasionally manages to shake the movie from its plodding, moralistic path. But all the actors are shackled by lines that support the film's message, rather than coherent characterizations. Having published a story that leads to a suicide, Meghan and McAdam sit in the newsroom and discuss the extent of their responsibility for the tragedy. "And if you delete newspaper?" Meghan bitterly replies. The exchange is glib, cute--and totally out of place...
...Soviet Screwtape writes about listless and corrupt clergy in minute details that could only have been gleaned from a broad network of informants. The aging Archbishop of Stavropol (who died shortly after the report was written) receives special mention because his sermons are "quite brief and not very impressive." In prose more typical of anticlerical Russian folk tales, there are accounts of priests "possessed by profane passions," or who use foul language and drink excessively...
...United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the International Committee of the Red Cross and the U.S. Government attempting an antipiracy campaign by channeling funds through the same corrupt regime that allows and encourages this abominable behavior by its fishermen-pirates...
What does shading a rule have to do with shaving a point? "For at least 20 years now, recruiting practices in college basketball have been completely corrupt," says Bob Cousy, the great Celtics guard who coached at Boston College from 1963 through 1969. "When the example has been set by institutions, impressionable kids get the idea. Do it any way you can. Get the grade, get the votes, get to the top of the ladder-get the money. Should we be surprised if in the basketball games at school-or three or four years down the line in business-they...
Foreign executives have their own list of complaints. U.S. companies that wanted to build manufacturing facilities found their development plans mired in the corrupt and immobile government bureaucracy. Investors have also been turned away by the continued deterioration of vital services. Making telephone calls can take half a day because connections are poor. Water taps are often dry, and whole neighborhoods are frequently inundated with sewage. Public transportation, especially in Cairo, is badly overcrowded and unreliable...