Word: corruption
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recuperating from 46 days of detention and grilling by the military. Still under house arrest is Kim Young Sam, 52, leader of the opposition New Democratic Party, who has renounced politics altogether. Chun has also imposed rigid military censorship on the press, suspended 172 periodicals for being "socially corrupt" and dismissed some 400 journalists. Last week the U.S. charged that South Korean newspapers were distorting dispatches to give the impression that the Chun government enjoyed unqualified American support...
...remains the seat of ultimate authority in China. But by bringing in a younger, more vigorous team, Deng is clearly hoping to bring more efficiency and energy to China's government ministries. In the same way, he has also been trying to weed out the inefficient, lazy and corrupt officials who snarl the middle levels of China's huge bureaucracy...
...book was No. 1-in everything but prose. Thy Neighbor's Wife may appeal to the prurient, the innocent and the curious, but it dismays anyone devoted to English. It hardly corrupts the reader's morals, as some critics have charged, but it may help corrupt his language. The work, eight years in the making, publicized like a space shot, high on the charts, frequently reads as if translated from the Albanian: "This was when Jim Buckley met Al Goldstein, whose spy piece he helped to edit, and whose expressed frustrations he not only identified with...
...beginning all the world was America." John Locke's 300-year-old phrase still keeps its haunting simplicity. For generations, America meant the part of the earth that was not corrupt, not worn by labor, tainted by inequality or poisoned by greed. This myth of paradise-on-the-frontier pervaded 18th century ideas about America and, by the mid-19th, had become one of the chief regulating ideas of America's discourse about itself: "That unfallen, western world," as Melville wrote in Moby Dick, "which to the eyes of the old trappers and hunters revived the glories...
...system, whatever it is, seems corrupt when fear of prosecution motivates action. Presumably, most Americans refrain from murdering each other not because they don't want to go to jail but because they don't believe in murder. People don't sit in front of banks and say "well, if we can get 5 per cent of the population to stick up cashiers the district attorney will have a hell of a time trying to prosecute us." Young men understand that society will proceed just fine without registration; only their lives, entrusted to the government, may not continue normally...