Word: corruptable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Italy is now a sagging, corrupt, crisis-ridden industrial country where all-and I mean all-social problems have been left unsolved and ignored. Our society, especially the young people (now accused of being monsters), has become fully aware that all our hard work returns nothing in the way of jobs, better schools, hospitals, houses and public services...
...onetime U.S. Attorney who sent more than 300 corrupt officials to jail between 1971 and 1975 has proved equally skilled at politics. The Chicago machine trembled at the prospect of a prosecutor as Governor, but he has allayed their fears. "I made a special effort to get along with the Democrats," he explains, "because everybody was tired of the constant fighting. I wanted to show them that I was not afraid of compromise and that I was not the holder of all wisdom...
Radicals have often criticized the philosophy behind the liberal arts ideal. It is hard to persuade students who want revolutionary change in American society that they should first immerse themselves in the cultural life of a society they believe is fundamentally corrupt. Radicals have charged that political ideas always underlay the concept of a liberal arts education. The conflict between liberal education and radical education is a question that has to be resolved before discussions of requirements can take place...
...Congressmen and the nation's economic elite their help in solving the biggest problems of the decade. Carter realizes this, and despite his efforts to resist the traditional inertia of national politics, he is getting pressure from all sides to be sensible, compromise and hold hands with the corrupt...
...Yaphet Kotto) do not entirely pay off. Still, these scenes help motivate the film's central incident, a robbery of their own union's safe in which the three turn up not the cash they wanted but a ledger hinting at various forms of venality and corruption. Their attempts to capitalize on the information are ambiguous: they would like to blackmail some money out of the union local, but knowing their leaders are corrupt also stirs reformist impulses in them, and it is their contrary feelings that provide the film's human interest and dramatic suspense. Finally...