Word: corruptable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more amenable to a larger portion of the electorate. After regional elections last June, the PC found itself only two percentage points away from becoming the largest party in the country. Meanwhile the American-supported DC has matched the PC's rise with a spectacular decline of its own. Corrupt, fragmented, and stagnant, the DC is split into nine factions with separate organizations and politics, whose laders have run the party for the past 20 years. The DC's poor performance has allowed the PC to reap windfall political profits...
...sailor abuses the woman, enacting sexual and emotional revenge for the humiliations visited by her social class on his and, inevitably, falls in love with her at the same time. Wertmuller's movies are about states of passion and the ways they change-and often corrupt -political allegiances and spiritual commitments...
Finally he comes to New York, a city he has loved for many years, and determines to explore the slums. There he hopes to find a reality that "social theorists" ignore. If America is corrupt, failing, this is where he will find the limit of despair. Instead, in Manhattan's lower East Side, he finds "an island of light on a dark street"--the Nativity Mission School, run by Father Eugene Feeney. Feeney says, "This is no big deal. We know we are just a small drop in a large pond...
...free to spend as much as they pleased, and the less well off could, if they were clever enough, raise any amount of money and promise their benefactors anonymity. In 1907, Congress enacted a ban on corporate giving, but this proscription was often blithely and safely ignored. The Federal Corrupt Practices Act of 1925 continued to outlaw corporate contributions, tried to make candidates report what they had spent and started a feeble attempt to set up some spending limitations. One fact reveals the law's in effectiveness: no member of Congress was ever punished for breaking...
Before his death in 1958, James Michael Curley brought fire and fury to Massachusetts politics for more than 50 years. He was portrayed as the corrupt, flamboyant mayor in Edwin O'Connor's 1956 novel The Last Hurrah...