Word: corruptable
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...Orleans has also had a pervasive cynicism of the sort that is not identified with America. Corruption may not be any more prevalent there than in any number of other rotten boroughs around the country, for instance -- even though there are people who believe that the line at Galatoire's Restaurant, which does not take reservations from anyone, is the only aboveboard operation in all of southern Louisiana -- but the New Orleans assumption of a corrupt motive in any act can make Americans feel naive. In 1975 I asked a French Quarter character I knew what effect the Superdome would...
...murder of Abe Fortas was in many ways simply more testimony to the reality that no matter how corrupt our government, how illusory our democracy, the myth is too strong to be discarded and accountability will ulitmately catch up with fugitives from...
...long-running feud over who its presidential candidate should be. The winner: Fidel Chavez Mena, a former Planning Minister, who defeated a challenge by the longtime party boss, Julio Adolfo Rey Prendes. Although Duarte and the candidate are not on the best of terms, Rey Prendes' close ties to corrupt officials led the U.S. embassy to favor Chavez Mena. "It is almost like Duarte is already completely forgotten," says a European diplomat. "It is really quite chilling...
...vision of America where graft and corruption aren't tolerated. Where the president tells the truth, and requires his subordinates to remain above reproach. Bush, for eight years, has remained silent about his corrupt associates...
...time Dukakis took office as Governor four years later, he had been through all the blarney and jokes about corrupt politics, and he meant to give it a truly last hurrah. His integrity was seen as righteousness, which helped defeat him in his 1978 re-election bid; but he got the job done. Said an omnidirectional fixer named Billy Masiello: "If any one man destroyed me, it was Governor Dukakis. When he came in there were no open hands. And the game was over...