Word: corrupter
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...Some built useless projects, all needed continual subsidies: the Soviet system could not grasp the simple truth that people work badly if they are terrorized and half starved. Toward the end of the Gulag, Applebaum writes, "It was becoming clear to the Soviet authorities that the camps were wasteful, corrupt, and above all, unprofitable." Unlike Germany, Russia has not confronted its totalitarian past. It tries to forget it - or, in the case of the present political leadership, selectively justify it, as if 10 million deaths can be balanced out by achievements in other fields. It may be for this reason...
...cherish Peck is to admit nostalgia for an era when popular and political culture could champion humanist ideals without smirking. If our time were not so facetious, so often corrupt, that time--and this man--would not seem so precious...
...ownership and found no evidence that the pieces were stolen.) Li was allegedly a classic bag man, removing the items one at a time in a sack. When authorities raided his home in December, they found that it "looked like a museum inside," recalls one Chengde police official. Although corrupt museum officials and tomb-raiding peasants face periodic crackdowns?and occasionally even the death sentence?countless stolen relics still flow out of China each year. Other antiquities that have circulated on the black market include...
...Arafat altogether, recognizing that as the elected leader of the Palestinians and the longtime symbol of their national struggle, he enjoys far greater legitimacy among ordinary Palestinians than does his appointed prime minister. Among ordinary Palestinians, Abbas is viewed as an integral part of a Palestinian Authority many consider corrupt, and the impetus for his appointment is seen as coming primarily from the U.S. and Israel. His weakness relative to Arafat within the PA was demonstrated in the showdown over his cabinet, in which he was forced to concede to many of Arafat's demands. Now, with the "roadmap" process...
Other remarks condemned the “corrupt principles” of an American media and entertainment industry which Romney said have created a culture of “decadence rationalized, not conviction...