Word: corruptedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even as token a gambit as this four-second solution seems refreshing amid the depressing political landscape. It might be tempting to cast the media consultants as villains who substitute deceptive advertising techniques for high-minded dialogue. But many admakers feel as trapped by slash-and-burn campaigning as the...
Charging that the Guatemalan judicial system has been corrupted by blatant political favoritism, a Harvard law professor has decided to shut down a University program that trains judges and prosecutors in the Latin American nation.
For the first time in the union's history, the Teamsters rank and file will elect leaders by secret ballot over the next two years, supervised by a court officer who has the difficult task of monitoring more than 650 locals. But even fair elections can be corrupted. In 1988...
"There's a tired old distinction that bright people will not be corrupted, | but that the working classes will," says Clive Barker, the English horror writer whose books have never been banned but whose films must be trimmed to get an R rating. "Therefore, television must be scrutinized more vigorously...
Police Chief Helio Saboya reckons that if his 12,000-member force were twice its size, he might be able to make a dent in the crime. But in a country grappling with a foreign debt of $112.4 billion, the budgets for local services are going nowhere but down. The...