Word: corruptible
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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China's leaders, never known for lenience, are suddenly acting tougher than in the recent past, jailing dissidents, executing dozens of criminals and corrupt officials, pressuring foreign journalists. Last month the National People's Congress submitted new laws to make it easier to arrest individuals and impose martial law. There have never been serious impediments to doing either, but for some reason the government has decided to remove even flimsy legal obstacles...
...wary of their role, in both the capital and other cities, including Shanghai, where more police have been deployed. An anticorruption drive by Jiang has resulted in a rash of arrests--47,560 in 1995--and each week the official media report the incarceration or execution of several corrupt bureaucrats or businessmen. Jiang has also approved a slew of nationalistic campaigns, including a drive against the recent fad of putting miniature foreign flags on the dashboards of private cars and taxis, a practice now officially banned in Shanghai and Dalian. ''To place a foreign flag in a place where...
...marketable product." Divisive issues such as abortion were explicitly avoided; the focus was on strategy, not philosophy. Gingrich taught his acolytes "our rhythm and style," how to use his serrated language to cut their opponents; Democrats were to be described as traitors and with such adjectives as sick, corrupt and bizarre. Gingrich eventually became such a cult figure among young Republicans that supporters considered publishing a comic book with him as the hero fighting bureaucratic bloat...
...then the city editor of the Arizona Republic, now the program's communications director: "I was having a field day. The thing had started too fast. Doctors weren't getting paid. There were cost overruns. I was sending reporters over here almost every day to get stories of trouble." Corrupt and incompetent managed-care partnerships bloomed in the desert...
...Holy Land of Jesus' time, the scrolls show, was rife with apocalyptic fervor. Ordinary Jews yearned for a savior who would lead them in a holy war against the oppressive Romans and a corrupt aristocracy, typified by the hated King Herod. Some scholars believe that Jesus was one of many political rebels in Palestine. His proclamation that the meek would inherit the earth was, in this view, not a dream of eschatological hope but a here-and-now demand for a new political order...