Word: corrupting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...That is a technique a politician would use: take facts and distort them. You said these candidates will appear on the ballots of most states. Does that mean you are mocking the millions of Americans who feel that something needs to be done to drastically change the government's corrupt practices? Making a joke out of those candidates who can make this country great is insulting. EITAN GAUCHMAN, 17 Champaign, Illinois Via E-mail...
...verbal melee that enveloped the 1994 contest between Lally and Gary Ackerman has, if anything, intensified this year. Calling his opponent a "corrupt, radical liberal," Lally emphasizes his own outsider status as a businessman (he once owned a company that made celebrity statuary). Although many of his proposals--like reducing taxes and pruning back the government--mirror the Contract with America, he has distanced himself from the G.O.P.'s more conservative fringe...
Karpan, who calls herself an "independent Western Democrat," is pro-choice but thinks public funds shouldn't be used for something many taxpayers find morally corrupt. She supported the recent welfare-reform bill and says more jobs should be created to help people work their way off the dole...
...scandal-ridden, corrupt Administration that does not deserve four more years in public life...
...even before we've done anything wrong--but it is also a claim about human nature; it says we are inclined to do wrong, that we have a hereditary dark side. As St. Augustine put it in the 5th century A.D.: After Adam sinned, our "soiled" and "corrupt" nature was "already present in the seed from which we were to spring...