Word: corrupter
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...Institutional Revolutionary Party in last summer's elections. Indeed, today's inauguration marks the first peaceful transfer of power from one party to another in 179 years. And nothing Fox learned at Coke or at business school will have prepared him for the challenge of tearing down a corrupt federal bureaucracy comprising 1.6 million people, which has entrenched the interests of a tiny economic elite for the past 70 years...
...trial itself showed how badly the image of the Los Angeles police has deteriorated. The prosecution was unable to call its star witness, self-confessed corrupt cop Rafael Perez--whose tales of his experiences as a member of the Rampart CRASH unit broke open the scandal a year ago--because of concerns about his credibility. A former girlfriend accused him of three murders, about which he indicated he would plead the Fifth Amendment on the stand. She later recanted, but the prosecution had to fall back on calling known gang members to testify. Yet the jury chose to believe...
...necessary majority. Once again the choice went to the House. This time, with the support of Henry Clay, a contender who had dropped out of the contest, Adams won on the first ballot--and soon made Clay his Secretary of State. The 1824 crisis produced charges of a "corrupt bargain" that facilitated Jackson's election...
...action is not simply to unhorse a single person in an act of fury but to re-create the country, to give it a democratic framework. That will not be possible without an honest settlement with officials, judges and everyone else who created and ruled in Milosevic's corrupt system. How do I know? In Poland, we went through the same ordeal 10 years ago, but once again in Poland, we have a President from the former communist regime. TOMASZ JANASZCZYK Kalisz, Poland...
...system was never designed for such a fluke. The last time it happened--in 1876--the deadlock was resolved by a corrupt deal that ended Reconstruction. The closest we have come to the edge in recent years was 1960, when Mayor Richard Daley of Chicago was credibly accused of widespread fraud and corruption in throwing Illinois to John Kennedy...