Word: corruptability
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...retaliation. Their exposed position is obvious: 4,400 miles of difficult-to-defend borders encircled by strategic problems. To the north, two radical neighbors, Syria and Iraq. To the south, Marxist South Yemen, teeming with East bloc advisers. Across the gulf, revolutionary Iran, which regards the Saudi monarchy as corrupt and Saudi society as decadent. To defend itself in this cockpit, the Saudis can deploy a 45,000-man army, a 4,000-man navy and a 17,000-man air force...
...instead be compelled to wash their hands of it entirely, leaving the spoils to competitors in other lands? Those are some of the difficult questions that were addressed last week when the General Accounting Office released a detailed study of the impact on American business of the 1977 Foreign Corrupt Practices...
...effort to stop such corruption, revelations of which rocked the government of Takeo Miki in Japan and disgraced Prince Bernhard in The Netherlands, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act made it a criminal offense to pay bribes of any sort to foreign officials to secure or retain business abroad. Punishment could be a prison sentence of up to five years and fines of as much as $10,000 for individuals and $1 million for corporations. The legislation also set up accounting procedures designed to make it virtually impossible for companies to disguise such "sensitive payments" or to hide them elsewhere...
...when the lease expired, a new minister had taken over and he refused to renew it. The indignant oilmen thereupon protested to the local American ambassador, who informed the Justice Department. The department in turn obtained a federal court injunction in 1979 preventing the men from violating the Corrupt Practices Act, which was by then...
...topic of revolutions, I ask Fuentes, does he really think that fighting can solve socio-economic problems in Latin American nations? Many people have read into his works a recurring theme of the betrayal of the Mexican Revolution's ideal by a new corrupt bourgeoisie and landowners...