Word: corruptable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gesture. Besides feeling that the U.S. was siding with the Turks, the Greeks were bitter over what they consider longtime American support of the corrupt military dictatorship that preceded Caramanlis. The whole imbroglio with Turkey could have been avoided, the Greeks believed, if Washington had vetoed the attempt by the Athens dictatorship to overthrow the Nicosia government and bring Cyprus into the Greek orbit, a switch Ankara obviously could not allow...
...service to an employer they had somehow failed to qualify for benefits. Others found that changing jobs or being put on layoff could deprive them of their benefits. The disappearance of a company through collapse or merger, or the bankruptcy of its pension fund because of inept or corrupt management (some pension officers have been known to lend money to friends or relatives at low interest) could leave veteran workers with little retirement income or none. In one celebrated pension catastrophe, when the Studebaker auto factory in South Bend, Ind., closed in 1963, 4,500 workers under age 60 were...
...realized or wanted to be. In extending the common piety about freedom of speech to freedom of action, he committed an act of intellectual subversion for which the 20th century has paid with the impossible drunken dream of total freedom. Lord Acton's dictum -power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely-we have learned all too well. It is time, Professor Himmelfarb cautions, that we pay equal attention to another law: liberty too can corrupt, and absolute liberty can corrupt absolutely...
...years in power, Moses was the only man in New York with the expertise and the influence to build large public works. Only Moses had the teams of designers ready with blueprints, the muscle to get appropriations and the independent organization that allowed him to circumvent corrupt contractors. None of Moses's bridges are built with oatmeal-adulterated cement. None of Moses's bridges ever fell down, and--barring catastrophe--none will...
...people of the United States expect that American foreign policy will reflect their universal concern for human rights and democracy. Yet, the U.S. government continues to aid the suppression of human rights in Greece and other corrupt and fascist governments in the name of freedom...