Word: corruptable
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...total of 4 million visitors. DIED. JACK LEMMON, 76, esteemed actor; in Los Angeles. Lemmon is perhaps most famous for his role as straight man Felix Unger opposite Walter Matthau in the film version of The Odd Couple, and his Oscar-winning portrayal of Harry Stoner, a corrupt businessman in Save the Tiger. SENTENCED. REHMAT SHAH AFRIDI, 55, editor and owner of the English-language Pakistani newspaper Frontier Post, to death for drug trafficking; in Islamabad. Reporters Sans Frontieres has denounced the verdict, saying it was "more for his critical coverage of Anti-Narcotics Force activities than for supposed drug...
...Mexico a threat to the American way of life? A number of you thought so. Our stories on the increasing interconnections along the border drew some responses that were overheated, to say the least. "Our nation is being invaded by people from a Third World country that is too corrupt and lazy to take care of its citizens," warned a Washingtonian. "The U.S. may be the first country in history to turn itself over voluntarily to another race, language and culture," a Houston man declared. A like-minded man from Zebulon, Ga., asked, "Would somebody please check with the American...
...magnet for hot money and market manipulators. Foreign pundits are even less forgiving. "A cesspool," is how John Band, the Bombay-based CEO of investment bank ASK-Raymond James describes Calcutta's bourse. Many foreign bankers have judged the exchange to be among the worst in Asia?a mismanaged, corrupt mess...
...Laden found himself in conflict with the pro-Western regime in his native Saudi Arabia. The Gulf War proved to be his breaking point with the Saudi royal family. Driven by a desire to expel the U.S. from the Gulf region and overthrow a royal family he denounced as corrupt apostates, he turned his fire increasingly against America. The World Trade Center bombers may have been motivated by similar concerns - and they may have been inspired by some of the same militant teachings of Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman - but the two don't appear to have been directly linked...
...difference between Inside and Outside is more than just money. Insiders want reform, free elections and a level economic playing field, or, in some cases, just to be cut in on the corruption. Outsiders want to hold onto their power, squash the press and keep their business monopolies. The lawlessness of the intifadeh has made the squabbles more coldly violent. In February, Abu Amr, the owner of the Beach Hotel in Gaza City, invited Hisham Mikki, the head of the official Palestinian television station, to sit with him in his empty restaurant, smoking a water pipe and looking out over...