Word: corrupter
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...unexplained. "I can think of no good commercial reason for ... these features of the structure, and have seen no evidence of any," Hudson wrote. "I conclude, based on the evidence I have seen, that it is probable that the transaction, taken as a whole, was both fraudulent and corrupt." Hudson's report found a responsive audience in Baldeosingh, who stopped Petrotrin from doing business with Citibank and pushed the government to investigate. "We had an opportunity to recover a significant amount of money," Baldeosingh says. Instead, Trinidad's elected officials turned on Baldeosingh. After tussling with the Energy Minister over...
...years and transferred to a solitary cell. While his family and friends orchestrate a campaign to draw attention to his cause, a motivated Mawdsley makes life hell for prison officials, demanding books, exercise time, a radio, everything but HBO. True, his demands are his chief means of challenging the corrupt regime, but there aren't many works of prison literature that can trigger a bit of sympathy for the police state...
Nepal's 12-year-old democracy is on the ropes. A string of corrupt governments has failed to tackle the country's poverty, illiteracy and unemployment. A brutal Maoist rebellion has claimed 5,000 lives, including 3,000 since last November. And on Friday the elected government got a stark vote of no confidence: the country's constitutional monarch King Gyanendra?who took the throne 16 months ago after the Crown Prince massacred most of the royal family?went on national TV to say he was firing 'incompetent' Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba, postponing next month's parliamentary elections...
...dockworker's job has long been dirty and dangerous, as memorialized in the Marlon Brando movie On the Waterfront. Workers have struggled against shipping magnates and corrupt union bosses alike to improve working conditions and push full-time wages up to an average of $106,000 a year. But in the proud history of the longshoremen, this is surely the first time ports have been shut down to preserve the right of a few hundred unionized shipping clerks to keep using pencils and clipboards instead of computers and electronic scanners...
...tacit consent of local guerrillas. During last winter's filming, Pankisi was a little-known backwater where no Georgian policeman dared tread. Now it is the center of an ominous dispute between the Kremlin and Georgia, as Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze struggles to hold together his crumbling, corruption-ridden state in the face of pressure from Vladimir Putin, whose policy is informed by a mixture of geopolitical frustration and personal animosity. Putin's demands that Russians troops "restore order" in the Pankisi have been rejected by the Georgians, who point out that tens of thousands of Russians troops haven...