Word: corrupting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...blockbuster. The New York Times, Washington Post and Penthouse magazine all received copies of a single-spaced, typewritten manuscript, 56 pages and 35,000 words long, titled Industrial Society and Its Future. This rambling manifesto, whose authenticity was quickly certified by the FBI, was essentially an indictment of a corrupt technocracy that, Unabomber charged, was crushing human freedom at the behest of a mysterious corporate and governmental alite. In April, Unabomber said he would end his killing spree if TIME, Newsweek or the New York Times would publish a lengthy article telling his story. (So far, neither newsmagazine has received...
...abusing a line judge. Despite earning $29,984 in his best ever performance in a Grand Slam event, fines and taxes left Tarango with only $2,961 for the tournament. The good news: Tarango's wife was not penalized for twice slapping the umpire her husband called the "most corrupt in the game...
Civil rights advocates have tended to follow this style of advocacy in recent years. The great free speech and civil rights cases of the Warren Court tended to cast rights in terms of one heroic litigant taking on a corrupt system and winning respect for an essentially negative liberty. The right not to be discriminated against, or not to be kept from speaking, were at the root of such great cases as Walker v. Birmingham or New York Times v. Sullivan...
...another reputed Unabomber letter, mailed in Davis, Calif., surfaced at the offices of The New York Times and The Washington Post today. If either paper publishes the 35,000-word manuscript, which rails against a corrupt industrial-technological society, the bomber would stop killing people. The newspapers would have to print three follow-up messages a year, and the Unabomber has not promised to halt a campaign of property damage.Unabomber Page
...historic complaints on this side. Mexicans feel that our effort to fight drugs and organized crime in terms of the size of our country and the resources available is much bigger than the effort made in the U.S. Mexicans keep wondering why we seize cocaine, why we arrest corrupt policemen, and why that seldom happens...