Word: corruptable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Americans have a special sensitivity to the problem now, but it existed well before Watergate and is far broader than that shabby attempt to corrupt the U.S. constitutional system. Moreover, the phenomenon is worldwide. In one country after another, chronic, debilitating inflation tends to undermine the social contract...
...1960s when he joined the Community Action Council, a local group of disgruntled citizens. When then Mayor Thomas Whelan was packed off to prison for extortion and conspiracy in 1971, Democrat Jor dan won a special election to become the youngest mayor in Jersey City history and end the corrupt, malodorous 57-year dynasty of Bosses Frank Hague and John V. Kenny. Since taking office, he has announced plans for a $2 billion renovation of the city's waterfront and for new housing in older Jersey City neighborhoods. Last year he won reelection by a lopsided margin...
Richard Ben-Veniste, 31. Known as a quick-thinking, aggressive prosecutor of corrupt officials, labor racketeers and organized crime figures while he was with the U.S. Attorney's office in New York City, Ben-Veniste was recruited by Archibald Cox for the Watergate task force. He became head of it when Leon Jaworski was named special prosecutor and, with the task force's six other lawyers, helped obtain subpoenaed tapes in a major victory over the White House legal staff. "He bores in on you like a God-damned termite," said one lawyer who has watched Ben-Veniste...
...into the career of Roberto Barrera, a national union leader who makes himself the subject of a mock kidnapping so as to elicit worker sympathy for himself at the upcoming union elections. Through a series of flashbacks, that film shows Barrera's rise from bomb-throwing revolutionary to corrupt union boss, from a principled, uncompromising factory worker to a power broker whose only interest is to fill his own pockets by playing off worker against employer. The engrossing story of Barrera's meteoric rise to power, combined with the suspense of the election campaign, is so well presented that...
DURING ONE of the heavier-handed scenes in Wedding in Blood, Stephane Audran, playing the wife of a boorish and corrupt French politician, appears in her town's library to donate a volume on ethics. The librarian, impressed by the tome's weightiness and its complicated-sounding title, accepts the book and remarks, "It must be very difficult." Audran's precocious little daughter, who understands the surface of things better than any adult character, closes this little lesson on ethics by chiming in with her typically mocking tone, "Oh yes, very difficult...