Word: corrupting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That does not exempt him from charges of hypocrisy. ``Newt Gingrich complained about the corrupt system when he was in the minority,'' says Fred Wertheimer of Common Cause, who six years ago gave crucial support to Gingrich's effort to oust Speaker Jim Wright for ethics violations. ``Now he's running that corrupt system, and it's politics as usual...
There's no good reason to vote for any of these retreads. Liston is incompetent, Fine corrupt and Coffey once called Liston his "big brother" in public. They suck. As long as council members--and not the student body--vote for president, we'll get nothing but Michael W. Beys '94 and Joshua D. Liston' 95 clones...
...accord among the country's four largest political parties that will ultimately loosen the hold on power of his Institutional Revolutionary Party, not only in Chiapas but also throughout the country. The document promises electoral reforms at both federal and state levels to put an end to corrupt campaign practices and fraudulent vote counts. It will also allow the election of Mexico City's mayor, until now chosen by the President. ``Mexico was the ugly duckling of democracy,'' exulted Interior Minister Esteban Moctezuma, as he waited for his car after the ceremony. ``That's all over...
...Terri and her daughter does seem to tighten. Nobody believes that Richie would have been public spirited enough to commit suicide. Some very unsympathetic cops sniff around Terri and her family and finally arrest her new lover, an upstanding lawyer and senatorial candidate whose 15-year-old son the corrupt Richie had smeared with phony charges that he molested Terri's little girl...
Just hours after the resignation, Berlusconi's brother, Paolo, was convicted of violating political funding laws -- along with 25 other businessmen who illegally gave money to a corrupt political faction. The bribery affair has been linked to Berlusconi's companies (which employ Paolo), but not to the owner himself, who accused police of extorting money instead...