Word: corruptible
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...establishment are hoping that time will erode his lead. If the Chechnya peace agreement unravels, or Yeltsin recovers, Lebed's premature election campaign will look both indelicate and unwise. But in either case, Lebed might well walk out of the government, claiming to be the victim of jealous and corrupt government leaders. This is not a reassuring prospect for his many enemies. The last person to do this, in the late 1980s, was Yeltsin...
...political opportunists, financial finaglers--and no longer hold egregious vices against the politicians they vote for. A variation on this theory blames the press and the political system for scandal overload. Overdosing on exposes and special prosecutors, the public--while amiably willing to believe in general that politicians are corrupt--has lost its capacity for outrage at any particular new disclosure. A Clinton-friendly version of this theory holds that the mud doesn't stick because it shouldn't stick...
...make similar remarks. Consultant Goodman says he was sitting with Morris in Lott's Washington office in 1994. "It was during health care, the lowest time for Clinton," Goodman recalls. "Dick said, 'It's not going to be health care that brings down Clinton. It's going to be corruption.' I'll never forget that. If I thought a guy was corrupt, I wouldn't re-elect him President. But it's not personal with Dick. He needs clients so he can play the game. He doesn't care who they...
...Secretary Mickey Kantor has decided that because the U.S. punishes its nationals for paying bribes to obtain contracts, American firms unfairly lose billions in global business deals. In Europe such bribes are not only legal but usually tax deductible. So Kantor is pressing other countries hard to adopt U.S. corrupt-practices law. He is warning that if foreign competitors do not, he may go to Congress for stronger laws, and sanctions might be in the offing...
Again the U.S. has come to the rescue of a corrupt puppet, a man disliked by his own people because he has brought them only misery. You said, "Democracy triumphed." Hardly! ESTELA GIBSON Cypress, California...