Word: corruptible
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have brought B.U. into the top 10, but in only one category: expenses," said Weld, who pointed to a 38 percent dropout rate at the university as evidence that Silber's "B.U. miracle" is as corrupt as Dukakis' "Massachusetts miracle...
GOVERNOR of Louisiana from 1928-1932, and U.S. Senator from 1932 until his death in 1935, Huey P. Long was one of America's great advocates for the average citizen. On a local and national level, he railed against corrupt big-business interests, monopolists and financiers. Huey recognized that the concentration of wealth in the hands of the Morgans and Rockefellers resulted in excessive power and influence for these families...
...anachronistic. Even in the gulf states, where the vast majority of citizens are grateful for protection from Saddam's hordes, there is some bitterness on this point. "What does the West think?" asks a retired Omani municipal worker living in Bahrain. "That we want to be servants to these corrupt ruling families forever...
...result would be a moral victory as well as an economic one; lower oil prices would benefit oil-importing developing nations (that's most of them) and the fledgling democracies of Eastern Europe, while striking a blow to authoritarian Gulf sheikdoms, the Soviet Union, and corrupt banana republics such as Nigeria. After bringing down the price of crude, the U.S. ought...
Leave it to the Coen brothers -- the writer-producer-director team who were the film finds of the '80s -- to discover ferocious drama in words, character, atmosphere. Their inspiration for Miller's Crossing was a pair of Dashiell Hammett novels: Red Harvest (which provided the milieu of a corrupt city ruled by warring gangsters) and The Glass Key (which provided the plot of an aging boss and his young adviser involved with the same woman). To this blend the Coens have brought a teeming cast of sharpies, most of them spectacularly, thoughtfully venal. They speak wittily but often...