Word: corruptable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dumont concludes that Castro inherited an economy based on under-utilization of land, managed by a weak corrupt bureaucracy that never channeled funds back into Cuban development, and relied on improvisational economic policies. This heritage, Castro has yet to overcome. According to the recommendations which Dumont submitted to Castro after his three trips to Cuba, the author suggested a policy based on national diversification accompanied with regional specialization of crops employing a plan of concentric circles to the capital: perishable fruits and vegetables would grow nearby and sugar in far out regions...
...self-interests comes up hard against another set: Alinsky's rules, however unpleasant, are the only rules of the game. His point in making them so uncompromising is that in situations where "what is best for most" is being opposed-by racism, by unresponsive government, by corrupt local administrations, by corporations, or only by the inertia of the present order-there's often no room for compromise: the choice becomes one of either giving up a moral end or embracing an "immoral" means...
...immigrants envisioned it as a way to a new existence. "They reasoned," Adler wrote of the colonists, "that God Himself had intended to divide the globe into separate spheres. America was the 'New Zion,' and Providence had severed this 'American Israel' from a timeworn, corrupt and warring continent...
...that while he was in the hospital, his get-well cards included one reading "Better luck next time, you scumbag." Another said: "Too bad you didn't get your brains blown out, you rat bastard." Says Serpico sadly: "Cops are afraid to be honest, the system is so corrupt...
...decent interval" approach would yield startling insight into Kissinger's later policy recommendations on the war. To begin with, the Saigon regime was not being defended out of any real sense of principle. Kissinger was willing and eager to uphold a corrupt totalitarian government with the most brutal possible methods for the mere sake of diplomatic gain. Thousands of lives could be sacrificed and whole civilizations destroyed in the name of opposing a takeover which Kissinger had earlier been prepared-and was probably still prepared-to accept...