Word: corruptible
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...WASHINGTON, D.C.: TIME's Elaine Shannon reports that a newly redesigned $50 bill probably won?t cause the same international queasiness that greeted the phony-looking new $100 bill last year. Because U.S. currency often serves as the fail-safe exchange in countries with collapsing or corrupt banking systems (an estimated two-thirds of all U.S. cash circulates abroad), many international dollar-holders back then feared that their old $100 bills would be made worthless. In Russia, exchange centers were overwhelmed by worried people looking to change their bills for something smaller. This time around, the response has been muted...
...This is not cojones," Albright said. "This is cowardice." At other times she referred to Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein as a "slow learner" and told corrupt Haitian generals, "You can leave voluntarily and soon or involuntarily and soon...
Burton's aides argue that Mobutu was once an American ally, which is true, and they distributed letters and speeches the Congressman made criticizing Mobutu's regime. But they had difficulty explaining why Burton urged the State Department in 1995 to grant Mobutu a visa despite his "corrupt and dictatorial practices." As for the charges leveled by Siegel and the Education Department official, Burton's defenders say that because both accusers are Democrats they shouldn't be trusted, and that Burton did nothing improper...
...endgame in Zaire arrived sooner than anyone expected. President Mobutu Sese Seko, the country's corrupt "Supreme Guide" for 32 years, finally ran out of moves. When he grudgingly flew off last Friday for a possible meeting with rebel leader Laurent Desire Kabila, Mobutu could choose only his manner of exit: to resign, as his neighbors and former friends were urging, or be thrown out at gunpoint, as Kabila's advancing troops intended to do in short order. Since last October the rebels of Kabila's Alliance of Democratic Forces have surged across two-thirds of the vast nation, while...
Tammy A. Hepps '00 (Letter, May 2) longs for a world in which Jews will be "terrified" at the thought that their children might be raised in a merely "half-Jewish" environment. Similar words are uttered by racists who loathe the thought that miscegenation will corrupt their group's purity. We assume that despite Hepps's inflammatory language, she does not believe that Jews are superior to other groups, but that she is merely expressing her fear that Jewish culture will be lost through intermarriage...