Word: corruptable
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Here guards and administrators steal money and food from patients, allowing some patients to run their own corrupt businesses, while beating others incessantly. They stage human cockfights for amusement and blackmail their patient-slaves into cruel homosexual and sadistic acts. Perversely pushing and taunting their victims to the limit of their endurance, the guards would wait till their victims lashed out, only to be "kicked and stomped" to jellied unconsciousness or pumped full of a zombie's dosage of Thorazine or Mellaril. Medication to keep them out of the way, out of sight and out of mind; under control...
JIMMY CARTER CAME to the presidency offering a promise--and little else. He said he was an outsider, unsullied by Washington's tarnished morality and corrupt satisfaction with the status quo. But in his term in the White House, Carter has virtually ignored his promises of change, and instead pandered to the nation's emotions. He has camouflaged his failure to bring the nation an energy policy in a dangerous, confrontational foreign policy. His promises to women and minorities abandoned, he now permits all Americans to suffer 13 per cent and growing inflation. He has had his chance; he does...
...case, foreign payments like the one to the firm of the Shah's brother-in-law were not illegal under American law at the time. They were first outlawed by the 1977 Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which grew out of bribery scandals involving Lockheed and other firms. Last week the SEC was still meeting with leading corporate lawyers to discuss possible guidelines pertaining to enforcement rules. Many businessmen and some Government officials challenge the whole concept of exporting morality to parts of the world like the Middle East, where baksheesh, or greasing the palm, is an accepted fact...
...business generally ranks lower than Congress.) Until the Abscam evidence is finally evaluated in the courts-and no indictments are anticipated in less than three months-cynics can say that their suspicions have been justified: all too many legislators are heedless of the national interest and also personally corrupt...
...moved away from the routine investigations of bank robbery and car theft that were popular under J. Edgar Hoover, it has plunged into the far more complex world of organized and white-collar crime and corrupt politicians. Evidence is much harder to obtain, cases that will stand up in court are much harder to build. So the agency has increasingly resorted to stings to produce the strongest possible proof of a crime. But police infiltration of the criminal world has always been a touchy area. Undercover agents often necessarily become parties to the commission of crime; so do paid informants...