Word: corruptability
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...serious task for his mother: he kept the volatile Congress Party in line. Since his death, dissent has begun to bubble in party ranks. Rajiv, at least outwardly, seems less adapted to playing pointman for his mother, but he starts his new career with two big advantages: by the corrupt standards of Indian political life, he is Mr. Clean, and Congress Party members will not dare challenge his authority if they want to remain on the good side of Indira Gandhi...
...clothes at J.C. Penney. The presidency is a form of national theater; even in difficult times, Americans may still like to see a little sumptuousness there, in the same way they like to see Fred Astaire movies during their depressions. The trick is to be impressive without looking either corrupt or ridiculous. Richard Nixon's Graustarkian palace guard uniforms got him caught on the second point...
...themselves and we cannot argue with their motivation. The United States is in deep trouble. But the ideas that have emerged from our transformed capital--from the seductive illusion of the Laffer curve to the cruel inhumanity of the Human Life Amendment --seem destined only to distort and corrupt what is left of our national dream...
...superpowers are not the only nations insistent upon obsolete and corrupt relationships with those who seek freedom from outside domination. The last few months have witnessed the agonizing renewal of nearly open warfare in Northern Ireland, where Great Britain continues to demonstrate its unfitness to rule that battered region. Britain's refusal to grant political status to jailed Irish Republican Army members--a move supported even by many Protestants, if only to stop the bloodshed--represented just another example of the misguided sense of honor that has dominated British actions. All Ireland will eventually have to share in the creation...
...hostile crowd of about 100" which you reported was composed almost exclusively of Vietnamese. Many of them are boat people and recently arrived, and their hostility was directed exclusively at Ngo Vinh Long for his attempt to whitewash a regime which they know from painful experience to be corrupt, incompetent, and repressive...