Word: corrupting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...likely. Whatever his faults, Hosokawa, not a particularly corrupt figure in Japanese public life, was responsible for passage of a landmark political- reform bill. Most of the senior politicians now jockeying for his job came of age in the same money-swamped system, and the opposition Liberal Democratic Party, which ruled Japan for 37 years until displaced by Hosokawa's government, lost two of its last 10 Prime Ministers to scandal. In fact, some analysts think Hosokawa, because of his popularity, could have beaten back the attempts to unseat him. But this supremely independent descendant of feudal lords does...
...real scandal in welfare isn't the bad apples who break the law and abuse the system. The real scandal is the system itself," Weld says. "Welfare in Massachusetts is bankrupt. It is corrupt. It is messed up. And we're going to tear it apart and make it work...
...Forza Italia (Go Italy!), the party he had conjured from thin air barely three months ago, had emerged as the most important force in the country. In concert with the Northern League and the neo-Fascist National Alliance, the so-called Freedom Alliance had elbowed aside 45 years of corrupt postwar government. Armed with an absolute majority in the lower house of Parliament and close to a majority in the Senate, Berlusconi seemed certain to become the nation's next Prime Minister...
...befoul) England's green and pleasant land, and the Industrial Revolution has brought new wealth to towns like Eliot's fictional Middlemarch. The passage of the Reform Bill of 1832, which enlarged the franchise, has created fear of revolution among reactionaries while holding out the promise of democratizing a corrupt and elitist Parliament...
...from caustic rock to hushed ballads, at times recapturing the brilliance of Costello's best days. "The twitching impulse is to speak your mind," he sneers on All the Rage. "I'll lend you my microscope, and maybe you'll find it." And on 20% Amnesia he lambastes the corrupt calculus of politics, concluding, "You don't have to listen to me/ That's the triumph of free will/ When there are promises to break and dreams to kill...