Word: corruptedness
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Most of the violence appeared to be the work of the country's well-organized extreme right wing. The chief targets have been opponents of the country's still powerful military establishment, which ruled until 1973. Many Thais believe the right is now maneuvering to bring about a...
IN FACT, this grand tableau is only the beginning of Wertmuller's investigation. Seven Beauties is a film about choices, choices exercised within a situation whose constraints are stark to the point of absoluteness. In effect, Pasquale and the other inmates must choose either to do whatever may be necessary...
America's vocabularies, both public and private, are being corrupted in part by a curious style of bombast intended to invest even the most banal ideas with importance. Discussing his institution's money troubles, a university president promises: "We will divert the force of this fiscal stress into...
Mansfield, who graduated from Harvard summa cum laude, argues that a system "corrupted" by grade inflation will ultimately hurt the student a good deal more than it will help him.
Some readers might wish that such a belt could be created-but in fact multinationals are not all that powerful. Far from being monolithic, for example, they compete vigorously, not only against smaller national firms but against one another. Barnet and Müller further charge that the multinationals have...