Word: corruptedness
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Corporate managers who help fill campaign kitties say they merely want to make sure that their views are given a fair hearing in the corridors of power. Public-interest groups see something more sinister at work. Fred Wertheimer, president of Washington-based Common Cause, contends that "Congress is being corrupted...
"Current policy produces most of the evils associated with drugs today," he said, arguing that making drugs illegal has corrupted police and judges, created crime and glamorized the drugs themselves.
Most student Crits say that activism--such as holding protests--is a vital part of their participation in CLS. A belief that the legal system is corrupted by prejudices, they say, implies that they must do something to change it.
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
"Coming from Fleet Street, we didn't think anything was extraordinary," laughs Burt. "It was the American journalists who thought we were unusual. Most of them are corrupted by journalism school into dreary, humorless utopians out to save the world. They are Puritans who should stay on Plymouth Rock. Ghosts...