Word: corruptable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Soft Hats. Widespread corruption has squelched whatever hope there may have once been among the people to control their own destinies. Foreign diplomats speak openly of the "military Mafia"-high-ranking officers who sell deferments to rich Sino-Khmer fathers and draw the pay of thousands of phantom troops on their rolls. Out on Route 5 and Highway 7, and down in besieged Neak Luong, government soldiers are fighting the war in rubber sandals and soft hats. One corporal complained about the lack of boots and fatigues and how corrupt officers tried to make his wife pay 5,000 riels...
Just a few years ago, the U.M.W. Journal was more useful for kindling than news. It lavished all of its reporting on the U.M.W.'s corrupt president, now convicted Murderer W.A. ("Tony") Boyle. In one memorable issue in May 1969, the Journal got so carried away with its neo-Stalinist sycophancy that it ran 32 separate pictures of Boyle in the magazine's 24 pages, including one photograph of Boyle standing in front of a picture of himself...
...what we need to do, I see an America in which everyone is going to be fully employed. I see an America where, literally, we will rebuild the country. We will have to do it with great skill, of course, because resources are finite. We can't corrupt the atmosphere and the water and the land in the name of growth...
...mafioso partly by accident and partly out of revenge for his family's destruction. But his film is not a study of the origins of the underworld. It doesn't tell us much about the underworld's organization, either, or about the bases of its power in a corrupt system, in a country whose basic premises of economic exploitation pass naturally, without a whimper, from the barely legal to the outright illegal. The Godfather II is like dynastic history--full of human interest, good gossip, and referring in passing to more important, underlying historical events. Visually it's a treat...
...contractor system, the grower requests a set number of workers, and a contractor selects them on an arbitrary basis. Job security is nonexistent (Gallo fires fifteen to twenty workers a day during peak harvesting time). An official Teamster statement says, 'Teamsters condemn all labor contractor, because they are evil corrupt, immoral, inhuman, and barters of souls and human lives." ("Why Does the Teamsters Union Support the Labor Contractor Rather Than the Hiring Hall?" Publication of the Western Conference of Teamsters, 1973). But their contract has a different ring: "The parties understand and agree that subcontracting by the Company is necessary...