Word: corruptible
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...beaten to death for selling cigarettes without a license. This sparked island-wide protests that soon resulted in the brutal massacre of more than 20,000 Taiwanese at the hands of the Chinese Nationalist troops. These innocent people were murdered solely because they peacefully protested against the repressive and corrupt rule of the Chinese Nationalist government, which had taken control of Taiwan two years earlier (after World War II). In addition, the government targeted many scholars, students, lawyers, doctors and local leaders in an effort to purge Taiwan of all intellectuals who even hinted at opposing the Nationalists. A watershed...
Pervasive government corruption and even criminalization is a factor in voter disenchantment (according to the Election Commission, 1,500 of 13,952 candidates in the 1996 elections had criminal records, including murder, rape and kidnapping), but the overwhelming cause of voter apathy has been the inability of one single party to gain enough support to enact positive programs. The main force that allied Congress and the United Front was not common ideology or common programs, but the singular desire to keep the BJP from power. An alliance founded on hatred of a common enemy is uneasy at best, and when...
...funnies to the city's children during a newspaper strike. We can picture him instead lecturing children about wasting their time on funnies or maybe even arresting them for reading the funnies. We can picture him saying those who disagree with him on the funnies issue are irredeemably corrupt human beings...
...special interrogator in a political prison in Tehran. I finally had to escape from my beloved homeland and settle in Europe. Despite Khatami's hints that there should be freedom of thought, if you want to speak about freedom nowadays in Iran, you are accused of being a corrupt person. Khatami's remarks bring hope not only to the people who voted for him but also to Iranians like me who love God, human beings and Iran. We want to return home and try for peace, freedom and improvement. Now I have good feelings about the future. AMIR HAMI Rotterdam...
...President, Brean decides, will stage a war over nuclear terrorism with Albania. "Why Albania?" the President asks with confusion. "Why not? They're standoffish. Who would trust Albanians?" Brean replies and so the question is settled. And thus begins the deliciously corrupt 'producing' of a war by Brean and Stanley Motss (Dustin Hoffman), a loquacious Hollywood producer who equates the crisis with the importance of maintaining a full tan. The war campaign is perfectly orchestrated--the President is photographed with random civilians posing as Albanians, clips that feature screaming young girls are shot on a soundstage and sent directly...