Word: corruptable
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...failed to mention one of the more glaring reasons the Mob can operate with impunity-and that is that there are too many corrupt officials on the take. They are willing to turn their heads away as long as enough money sticks to their fingers...
...state long known for tolerating corrupt officials,* the voters left a surprised politician dangling in the winds of change last week. Joseph J.C. DiCarlo was the odds-on favorite to win a Democratic primary for a seat in the Massachusetts senate-the very seat, indeed, that he had held before his colleagues threw him out only this April. The reason for the ousting was the conviction of DiCarlo, 41, and Republican State Senator Ronald MacKenzie on charges of squeezing $40,000 from a New York consulting firm in exchange for suppressing a legislative report criticizing the company's work...
...bestow honor and publicity upon a man who betrayed us and disgraced us before the entire world, a man who probably headed the most corrupt Administration the U.S. has ever...
...Darth Vader, Dark Lord of the Sith, and the Grand Moff Tarkin-probably the nastiest pair of villains in the thousand worlds. What, they want to know, has she done with the stolen secret plans of the Death Star? If those computerized blueprints reach her rebel friends, the corrupt Empire might fall-and freedom be restored to the galaxy...
...case forcefully, noting that none of the major Catholic schools had parietals anymore, that even Holy Cross had surrendered to co-education, that early-morning chapel had gone the way of all flesh, even at Fordham. In short, all of Ignatius's arguments were bogus--Harvard could not possibly corrupt me any more than the purest citadel of religious learning. Fulton Sheen would have been proud...