Word: corruptability
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Turin in next year's local elections, although Novelli has perhaps a slightly better hope of remaining in office. Whatever the outcome, says University of Rome Sociologist Franco Ferrarotti, an independent leftist, "the myth of the Communists' administrative efficiency has been exposed. The Christian Democrats may be corrupt, but they have the experience of government. The Communists are simply not yet equipped to govern...
...challenge to his power. He has strong narcissistic traits and reacts to threats by demagogy. But Khomeini is capable of backing away, albeit reluctantly, when his goals cannot be accomplished immediately. During the Tehran government's military campaign against the Kurds last spring, he denounced the separatist leaders as corrupt men deserving of punishment. Later he sanctioned negotiations to allow for some form of Kurdish autonomy. After mass protests he modified his rule that women must wear the chador to one requiring merely "modest dress"?even though he fumed to Italian Journalist Oriana Fallaci about "the coquettes...
...townspeople of Romans resented the same fiscal injustice, but theirs was a more complicated grievance. Taxes went into the pockets of corrupt administrators and stayed there. Instead of paying their bills, these unscrupulous city fathers ran up an enormous municipal debt, then lent the city the money they had embezzled -at considerable interest...