Word: corruptable
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...Shah, facing the gravest threat to his throne in a quarter of a century, moved swiftly to quell the opposition that has been building against his regime over the past nine months. His policy was twofold: 1) to punish corrupt officials and subversives and 2) to demonstrate convincingly that Tehran's springtime of political liberalization, begun only a month ago, would continue...
Nicholas R. Carbone, Deputy Mayor and Councilman of Hartford, Conn., said that he was part of "a real old-fashioned political machine." He said political machines, though sometimes corrupt, could provide local political participation for the disadvantaged, and can act in ways that are moral but not legal...
...land of slash pines, Cyprus swamps and oldtime backroom politics, it has been the fiefdom of U.S. Representative Robert ("He-Coon") Sikes, who last year was stripped of a congressional subcommittee chairmanship because of financial misconduct. Taunton publicly charged that former State Senator George Tapper engaged in an "elaborate, corrupt political scheme" with State Representative William J. ("Billy Joe") Rish, Sikes and others to profit from intricate land deals at the public's expense. A state investigation turned up no evidence of wrongdoing, however, and a Gulf County grand jury exonerated everyone accused by the judge. Says Taunton...
...special need to learn all I could of this over the years, myself so nearly mute at having to let writing die over and over again in me," Olsen eloquently and passionately documents a spectrum of circumstances, most beyond the control of the writer, that corrupt or destroy his art. (Olsen criticizes the language's invidious bias towards the male...
...tradition, WKRP is about the modern American family: people who work together rather than live together. Among the station employees are the hip new program director (Gary Sandy), a shamelessly corrupt ad manager (Frank Bonner), and a prissy newscaster obsessed with hog futures (Richard Sanders). If there is a standout performer, it is Howard Hesseman as a fading deejay who falls asleep during his own broadcasts. Hesseman gets so many laughs that even the show's typically effusive laugh track cannot keep up with the pace