Word: corrupting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Samp, a long-time Cambridge resident, says the implementation of PR was an attempt to reform what was widely perceived as a corrupt city government...
Steroids not only corrupt the sports world, they also corrupt the sensibilities of society. Hard work has been replaced by the quick fix. The process is forgotten in favor of the product...
...much as $60 million annually in tourism revenues--the national government has tried to curb the worst excesses. But it has not provided park officials with the backing they need to fight poachers or to wipe out introduced species, and it has come under intense pressure from fishermen, corrupt politicians and a charismatic leader named Eduardo Veliz, the Galapagos' delegate to the National Congress. Tapping into widespread local resentment, Veliz pushed a law through the Congress that would give the islands enormous autonomy in setting their own rules for tourism and development. When President Sixto Duran Ballen vetoed the legislation...
...What's at issue is four million people whose lives have been destroyed by a corrupt, bad system," said Dan J. Lickel '96, treasurer of the Republican Club, who advocated moving authority over the welfare program to the states through block grants...
...bodyguards from the Ku Klux Klan. Cochran and I have been friends for years, but we never discussed the Simpson case until it went to the jury last week. That was in part because I think the evidence points to Simpson's guilt, as well as to police corruption--and I'm not alone, even among blacks. "I think it's possible for the Los Angeles police department to be corrupt and racist and for Simpson to still be guilty," says Julianne Malveaux, the African-American host of a radio show in Washington. "The evidence has clearly shown...