Word: corruptable
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...effort to stabilize Lloyd's worsening condition, the Bank of England exerted its influence to have an outsider, Ian Hay Davison, named chief executive officer in 1983. But the real power remained with chairman Green, a richly corrupt official who in 1986 was found guilty by a tribunal of Lloyd's members of "gross negligence" and "discreditable conduct." Davison lasted only two years as Lloyd's CEO, and later published a bitter book describing the experience...
...Most everyone has a sport-utility vehicle to negotiate the rotting streets of Lahore, a city without enough public works to take care of its roads. Indeed, the novel at times seems like a huge smear campaign against Range Rovers and Pajeros--the characters who drive them are spoiled, corrupt, evil, stoned, sometimes all of the above...
...even as he loses his sense of right and wrong, Seth never loses his respect and loyalty to his father. Even in this most corrupt of businesses, Seth never waivers in his love for his father, and this is perhaps the crux of the movie. Past the absurd money swindling, the corrupted dealings and the painful betrayals, Seth stands as a figure on the brink of manhood, having to decide between truth and deception, honor and cowardice, loyalty and self-vindication...
...lover Dennis, having robbed a bank, need a place to hide the money as the police chase after them. They stuff the body in a closet, but scheming nurse Fay (Laurie Williams) discovers their plan and demands to be a part of it. Throw in a shockingly ambivalent and corrupt police inspector Truscott (Jeremy Geidt), a series of farcical cover-ups and Orton's scathing lines, and the potential for a hilarious play, at the very least, should be there. The problem is that the actors had a particularly difficult time finding the humor of Orton's lines and delivered...
...Does a grown-up make a better president or leader than a needy kid? Not necessarily. Ulysses Grant, an impressively grown-up Civil War general, became a bad president with a corrupt administration. Richard Nixon, a grown-up from the age of five or six, presided over a spectacular train wreck...