Word: corruptible
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...look at Perot's history, as reported in the media in recent weeks, reveals shrewd use of the corrupt system about which he complains...
...recently as February 1991, the country sat still for a bloodless military coup that overthrew a more-than-usually-corrupt elected civilian government. Corruption at least was the stated reason for the coup; the real motivation was that the army feared that this government, unlike most nominally headed by civilians, would actually try to shake loose from the soldiers' behind-the- scenes control...
...sins of the old regime; they are embarked on free-market reforms that entail massive hardships in the short and middle run. And they are doing all this without the benefit of a strong state. For decades, the Soviet-style state was identified with a defunct ideology and with corrupt, repressive institutions, notably the Communist Party. Now those institutions have self-destructed, opening the way for both freedom and its dark underside, which is anarchy...
...wide range of heads do a lot of talking about the brutal death of special agents Jack Coler and Ron Williams on June 26, 1975. At that time, the radical American Indian Movement was seeking to re-establish traditional tribal ways and to disestablish a tribal leadership it considered corrupt. Its opponents responded with terror squads, and between them the two sides created something close to a civil war on the reservation...
There is always a superficial attraction to the notion of an outsider coming in to clean up a corrupt, wasteful political system. "Let's send Ross Perot up there," cries Bubba. "He knows how to kick ass." Successful "bidnessmen" have been running for office in Texas for years on that appeal: "Vote for me; I've met a payroll; I understand the bottom line." We have been plagued in recent years by rich guys bored with making boodle who decide to take up public service instead. An entirely commendable impulse, but why don't they start by running...