Word: corrupting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Arizona's largest dry-goods merchandiser, young Barry started out in the family business. In 1949 he was so disgusted with the corrupt city government in Phoenix that he ran for city council. Three years later he was elected to the Senate on Dwight Eisenhower's coattails. But he never would be, as he put it, a "me-too Republican." Goldwater summed up his views in The Conscience of a Conservative (1960): "My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them. It is not to inaugurate new programs, but to cancel old ones that do violence...
...They have no awareness of what our legal system is like. They've only a known a corrupt legal system, and initially, they have no reason to trust me at all," Gordon says. Slowly, Gordon builds their trust, explains to them their options, and if they so choose, helps them apply for political asylum in the United States...
Thompson writes with humor, and experiences a certain amount of cynical amusement himself. At first the seriousness of the book is lost amid a series of cliches about Southern life. As the corrupt mayor, the high school sweetheart and the bumbling policeman are introduced, the book begins as a condemnation of the incestousness and stifling boredom of small-town America...
...stage has thus been set for the beginning of two of the most significant trials in U.S. Mob history. Finally realizing the full potential of the once slighted Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, federal prosecutors are trying to destroy Mafia families by convincing juries that their very existence is a crime, that their leaders should be imprisoned for long terms and that, eventually, even their ill-gotten gains can be - confiscated. Success in the New York cases, following an unprecedented series of indictments affecting 17 of the 24 Mafia families in the U.S., would hit the Mob where...
...victim's reputation. Bryant, 33, was widely known as a longtime Hare Krishna who had turned against the sect in recent years. A bit of a crank, he bounced between West Virginia and California telling lawmen that the ever chanting, saffron- robed, pig-tailed, panhandling sect had turned corrupt...