Word: corruptible
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...state refused to release $600 million dollars earmarked for building new municipal schools unless the city created a separate agency charged with overseeing the construction. Ironically, many large cities originally delegated more power to local school boards in order to fight graft. In so many instances, they merely replaced corrupt professionals with corrupt amateurs...
...bureau and national economics correspondent based in Washington. With us, he found not only security but also renown: Gwynne and TIME correspondent Jonathan Beaty won three major awards last year for their exposes of how the Bank of Credit & Commerce International ran a one-stop shopping center for criminals, corrupt leaders and official intelligence agencies around the world. Random House will publish their jointly written book on B.C.C.I., The Outlaw Bank: A Wild Ride into the Secret Heart of B.C.C.I., later this month...
Despite the movement's anti-Western rhetoric, fundamentalists are more concerned about instigating change in their own countries than in the outside world. In nations from Algeria to Pakistan, the desire for an Islamic society stems largely from the failures of corrupt and ineffectual secular governments to give burgeoning urban populations the jobs, housing and basic services they need. Most of the faithful are looking for justice at home, not war abroad. Yet many who decry the ills of the modern world would flinch at imposing religious rule by violent means. "The most important thing to remember is that...
...Link, a computer owned by a New York City public-TV station that provides educational information for hundreds of schools. A chilling electronic message was left behind: "Happy Thanksgiving, you turkeys, from all of us at MOD." It was signed with five code names: Phiber Optik, Acid Phreak, Outlaw, Corrupt and Scorpion...
...tickets sold. Small wonder, considering such predictable bombs as Far and Away (Cruise with a dreadful Irish accent in 19th century Oklahoma) and Newsies (Disney's appalling revival of the movie-musical) and surprising failures like The Distinguished Gentleman, featuring Eddie Murphy in a tailor- made role as a corrupt Congressman. Apparently his biggest fans won't accept him as anything but a sassy inner-city cop named Axel Foley...