Word: corruptable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...flags at a mass rally of 200,000 Communists in the Piazza of St. John Lateran, Berlinguer declared, "The political line of the Italian Communist Party promises the only valid democratic alternative to reactivate Italy. The gains of the Communist Party can only frighten the corrupt and the overbearing. They cannot frighten honest citizens...
...rest of the West took the election returns more calmly-less as a Communist triumph than as a defeat for the Christian Democrats, who have grown flabby, inefficient, corrupt and arrogant. Both Washington and London stressed that voters in Western Europe tend to cross lines in regional contests as a means of registering protests, much as American voters do in primaries. Europeans were more sanguine than the U.S. about the respectability and acceptability of Italian Communists. Some British politicians even suggested that a Tito-style Communist Party in Italy would be more of an embarrassment than an asset...
Ultimately, foreign bribery is a self-defeating tactic. Once word gets out that a U.S. company is a soft touch for payoffs, it becomes a target for all kinds of ripoffs. Moreover, when a company pays off a corrupt government, it makes itself a target for nationalization if an opposition party comes to power. In less developed nations, further, bribe-giving corporations contribute to an atmosphere of corruption that adds to the appeal of puritanical leftist movements...
...Ursa the question of biological imperatives perpetuates her family's history. On her great-grandmother's lap at the age of five, the child began to hear about the slave family's special bondage to a corrupt 19th century Portuguese coffeegrower called Corregidora. He took first Ursa's great-grandmother and then Ursa's grandmother-his own child-out of his Brazilian plantation fields and turned both women into enthralled concubines and whores. With considerable dignity First Novelist Gayl Jones explores black female sexuality and the remnants of slave brutality that still fester in black...
...lessons of Vietnam that Ford would like to ignore is that more than two decades of repression by a series of corrupt regimes supported by the U.S. could not stifle the will of the Vietnamese people. Even though more than a million people died as a result of the American policy, its failure spoke--more eloquently than any polemic against the PRG--for the inadequacy of terror as a political weapon...