Word: corrupting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...major condition for peace has been Saddam Hussein's ouster, is also feeling the pinch of the stagnant conflict. In an effort to placate the populace, which is becoming increasingly unhappy with stringent wartime economic conditions, the Supreme Judicial Council two weeks ago designated special courts to try corrupt government officials and businessmen. Seventeen offenders are already on trial, with scores more expected to follow...
...quit his pilot's job, entered politics, and soon won his brother's parliamentary seat. Named a general secretary of the Congress (I) Party in February 1983, he made a reputation for himself as a quiet-spoken reformer determined to bring new life and leadership to a largely corrupt and ineffectual machine, leading some Indians to refer to him as Mr. Clean...
...interest in the outcome, provided the balloting is free, fair and open. But U.S. diplomats are concerned that Sir Eric Gairy, 62, the country's first Prime Minister following independence in 1974, will make a comeback. He was ousted after five years of increasingly brutal, eccentric and corrupt rule. Gairy's successor, Maurice Bishop, was deposed by a hard-line faction of his leftist New Jewel Movement and murdered six days before U.S. troops arrived. The trial of 19 former New Jewel members accused of the deaths of Bishop, 39, and ten of his followers resumes this week...
Waugh's Guy Crouchback or Charles Ryder might have had such plaintive thoughts about their ignoble times. Wilson interjects such commentary to underscore the point that the assemblages of traits and mannerisms that are his characters are too confused or corrupt for weighty contemplation. Wilson is forbearing about the sins of the flesh, while the transgressions against reason are greeted with disdain. Conservative authority is the secret hero of this book; hapless liberalism and its freebooting institutions are the goats. The result is a sharp irony concisely expressed by an envious KGB agent: "How could a man reach Blore...
...real trouble comes with the mechanical series of adventures King and Straub have invented for Jack to battle through on his way to the talisman. The hoodoos encountered in a rancid roadhouse in New York, a corrupt orphanage in Ohio, and a nuclear-wasted parallel-Nevada in the Territories are maggoty and colorful, but also wearisomely repetitive. The horrors there on the page are visually ingenious, but they never echo in the mind. Jack Sawyer has two unvarying reactions, fearfulness and pluck. The co-written sentences are so gaudy and muscular they seem phony, like the deltoids of a bodybuilder...