Word: corruptible
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been inspired by a student government that was thoroughly unrepresentative--the Old Boys Network dominating the council hierarchy through back-room deals, financially corrupt, given to looting from the common treasury for private purposes, and ineffective both in attempting to represent student opinion in front of the administration and in the organization of undergraduate events and services. The council merited neither the nominal dues that I contributed nor the attention lavished upon it by the campus press...
...Cable television. Sure, it may corrupt some of the high-brow atmosphere, but it will provide a gathering place for students to watch Must-See TV, political debates and sporting events. The houses have television; why not Loker...
...Langston's rivalry for the elusive doll with one Myron Larabee (the comedian Sinbad), a bomb-toting mailman who has gone permanently postal. Director Brian Levant envisions their holiday world in cheerily surreal terms, and Arnold's other obstacles include an unaccountably savage reindeer, an army of corrupt Santa Clauses and a motorcycle cop who is a sort of uniformed Wile E. Coyote...
...issue isn't whether the Democrats or the Republicans are more corrupt. It is U.S. politics that is corrupt." ESTYN L. EDWARDS Phoenix, Arizona...
...Mobutu's corrupt and incompetent army put up little resistance when the Tutsi rebels seized eastern portions of the nation. But when they began forcing the 1.2 million Hutu refugees from camps inside Zaire, Mobutu was handed a crisis tailor-made to his needs. An international humanitarian effort could enhance his global stature and buy him some time, assuming his health remains stable. But it would not address the pent-up flood of problems that are overwhelming his vainglorious leadership...