Word: corruption
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most fundamental issue before Aquino is how to undertake a thoroughgoing purge of Marcos' corrupt legacy without seeming authoritarian. On the local level, for example, the new government has already removed 71 of the 74 governors and 52 of the 60 city mayors who belong to Marcos' party. But in discharging them so peremptorily, the President has sparked complaints that she is indulging a Marcos-like self-interest. "I thought she was going to be a nonpartisan President," grumbles Richard Gordon, the dynamic young mayor of Olangapo, who was replaced by an Aquino appointee. "But it's still personality politics...
...disagree about the relative importance of openness concerning funding compared to openness of sources and other sources of corruption of scholarship. I repeat that the focus on sources of funding and the relative neglect of the issue of openness reflects a broader erosion of principles that all scholars as scholars share with one another concerning intersubjectively valid ideas of evidence and its assessment. The work itself, its arguments and evidence, is the thing, a more important thing, in my opinion, than knowing who paid for it. Openness is a value. So is my right to privacy. I always have been...
...only does terrorism corrupt governments and militaries, but terrorists and narcotics traffickers also work together to further their respective aims, Abrams said...
...good to last. The film's cynical insider tone turns apocalyptic for a third act of corrupt development schemes and race riots. The preachy message has drowned out the music. And what began as a giddy ride in the Time Machine ends up as angst for the memories...
...guess you all just couldn't resist the opportunity to take a swipe at George Bush's hypocrisy. In the process, you buy into the same free-market fictions which helped wreck the Rust Belt. I hope that in the future you can look beyond petty regional rivalries and corrupt conservative formulas to see and respond to the real human costs of economic change. Kim Ladin...