Word: corrupting
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...junta also accuses you and your government of corruption. The allegations are baseless. I asked very detailed questions about projects that went to the Cabinet for approval, and I shot down many of them. In all the previous 17 coups, corruption was one of the excuses. But some juntas ended up being more corrupt. At any rate, corruption will not go away in Thailand-it's in the system...
...bank's in-house think tank, estimates that more than $1 trillion is paid in bribes each year, lining the pockets of officials at the expense of economies, distorting competition and giving business a bad name the world over. The U.S. tried to outlaw the habit with its Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, which makes it unlawful for any American firm to make a corrupt payment to a foreign official. But that was long the exception; many other rich countries simply turned a blind eye. In Germany and Luxembourg , bribes used to be tax deductible. In many countries...
...themselves in these mantles of competing nationalisms, but the bottom line is they're a bunch of crooks," says the Western diplomat. Reinforcing that impression, Bangladesh has had the unhappy distinction over the past five years of being ranked worst or near worst on Berlin-based Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index. (As for the years the country was not the most corrupt, Bangladeshis joke that officials must have bribed their way out of the bottom spot.) Muzaffer Ahmad, chairman of Transparency International's Bangladesh chapter, says both main parties are guilty of sleaze: "Making money, if you control...
...Miyazaki for electing independent candidate Hideo Higashikokubaru?a political neophyte better known as former TV comedian Sonomanma Higashi?to be Governor in a landslide win on Jan. 21. But Higashikokubaru's win may have less to do with entertainment than with public dissatisfaction over Japanese politics, increasingly seen as corrupt and ineffective. His predecessor, also an independent, resigned amid corruption allegations, and scandals have forced two of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's top ministers to resign...
...total - to prevent malaria in Africa because "this is an amount that is too large for Africa but truly tiny for the rich world." But you and I have already paid this amount over a hundredfold through our tax money, which has been given as relief and aid to corrupt African leaders who have salted it away. Shouldn't our governments be doing something to seize those stolen funds and then give them to the people who would benefit? How can our leaders sit by knowing all along that the donations given to African and other countries are very often...