Word: corruptability
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Principally, they stem from what New Rightists call her "drastic amending" of a bill that would have banned adult bookstores within a one-mile radius of schools and parks. O'Connor altered the restriction to 4,000 feet, but she clearly had no desire to corrupt youth. One possible motive: getting state law to conform with federal statutes, thus reducing the possibility of court challenges...
...Reagan Administration plans to shift enforcement efforts from the smaller dealers to the major traffickers. Spearheading the drive is Francis ("Bud") Mullen, former FBI executive assistant director, who this month was put in charge of the DEA. He hopes to use the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations statute, the FBI'S favorite tool against organized crime, to confiscate drug-trade profits. One way of locating these gains is through stricter enforcement of the 1970 Bank Secrecy Act, which requires banks to disclose deposits that exceed...
...elegant puzzles of the Conan Doyle school and the dumb gore and violence of the pulp magazines. Typical Hammett detectives, like the Continental op and Sam Spade, got their hands dirty but kept their minds alert. They often found that those who had hired them were criminal or corrupt; they prowled, lonely paladins of justice, through stark landscapes of betrayal and greed. Hammett's stories paid the rent. His novels, especially The Maltese Falcon (1930) and The Glass Key (1931), brought him an international reputation...
...well. Perhaps Congressmen really will be reluctant to wage war if their sons will be dying. But there's another side of this--the memory of General Hershey's declaration that the best use of the draft was for "indoctrination" of young men before liberalizing forces like college could corrupt them. Similar worries--and not blind pacifism--motivate many on the left who oppose the draft or the shoring up of our military...
...been arrested at his own wedding several weeks before. As an indomitable opponent of the Shah, Soltanpour had been tortured for his views by the SAVAK, the imperial secret police. At his summary trial last week, Soltanpour told Gilani that he regarded the Islamic Republic as a reactionary and corrupt regime that would soon be "crushed by the people it has betrayed." Gilani sentenced him to death as a "crusader against...