Word: corrupting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...suggested that local businesses are already making adjustments in their operating practices to deal more hospitably with the sometimes-corrupt bureaucracy of the mainland. Corruption stands, as always, as the archetype of all bureaucratic evils of communist China...
...network essential to every Prime Minister. Instead, he surrounded himself with remarkably undistinguished loyalists who did not have the cleverness or clout to head off mistakes or remedy them. Last week, just before the bombing, the police were getting ready to deliver their verdict on allegedly corrupt deals behind his misguided appointment of a thoroughly underqualified Attorney General. Even if Netanyahu escapes direct taint, two close aides could face indictment...
...official may use government power for the political purpose of staying in power." That is silly. Taken literally, it would disqualify any activity motivated by hopes of re-election, including governing well. It reflects the fashionable but confused--and ultimately undemocratic--view that something called politics is inherently corrupt and must be isolated from the process of governing...
Violently, of course, is how it plays out. But as matters rumble toward a good, tough-guy ending, what sounds real is not so much the corrupt politics of the construction business as the shot-and-a-beer talk of the guys who wear hard hats. Kelly knows how the palaver goes in the kind of bar that doesn't have ferns, the boozy, unchanging gab about sports, women and the System that defines the deep, edgy pessimism of blue- collar men. "Einstein" is what they call Billy, out of class respect and class resentment. But as shots are heard...
...defense units a nd vowed to continue fighting until Berisha resigns and new elections are called. "Weapons will not be turned in until this problem is solved," said Faud Karaliu, the new police chief in the southern city of Sarande. Civilians, who are enraged over lost life savings in corrupt investment schemes, have commandeered tanks, raided military armories and barricaded the cities of Vlore, Delvine and Sarande against government troops. Berisha's offer to absolve the rebels extends throughout a 48-hour cease-fire signed Thursday by the president and opposition leaders. The agreement, which halted government tanks and troops...