Word: corruption
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quarter of all U.S. consumer products, in addition to regulating the $400 billion food, pharmaceutical and medical-devices industries. But throughout the 1980s the FDA has been traumatized by budget and staff reductions, fusses over testing of drugs to combat AIDS, second- guessing over poisoned Chilean grapes, corrupt employees and controversies over the nutritional claims adorning food packages...
...then her government may be sidelined into irrelevancy as rival military groups battle it out. Says a young officer who backs the government: "I think Cory will have to be hard on the rebels." But to balance out the harshness, he says, "she must also be hard on the corrupt politicians around...
...only existing structures are corrupt anddisintegrating," Dillon Professor of FrenchCivilization Stanley H. Hoffman said of EastGermany. He said a plan for peaceful unificationshould include arms reduction, superpowerwithdrawal and an eventual "Pan-European mutualnon-aggression system...
What East Germans expect first of all from their new leaders is an effort to build "real Socialism" and sweep away the remnants of a corrupt and repressive regime. They want closer relations with their West German brethren, a growing together with the Federal Republic -- but not necessarily reunification; they insist on being accepted as they are. And finally, they demand economic reward, even though they know they are not likely to catch up with the West any time soon...
...Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations law of 1970 was aimed at mobsters and drug traffickers, but in recent years prosecutors have used the statute to go after white-collar criminals with gangbusting zeal. That application of RICO has been attacked as unfair, especially the practice of freezing the assets of suspected criminals before trial. Last week the Justice Department issued new RICO guidelines requiring that prosecutors seek a forfeiture of assets in proportion to the crime rather than try to seize all of a defendant's business interests. The changes come in response to pending congressional legislation that would weaken...