Word: corruption
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...seeing the movies based upon them) that had been created just prior to and during the war. The city was still digesting a huge and largely ill-favored population increase-people had flooded in to take jobs in booming wartime industry. It was policed by a force infinitely more corrupt than the norm and it had a thin, mysteriously wealthy upper crust capable-or so the fictioneers liked to think-of doing anything required to maintain its status. And that says nothing of Hollywood, whose morals everyone had suspected for decades. How closely this fictionalized portrait of a seamy, teeming...
...tour, the report said, quoting him as saying, "The 19 men now have more power than at any other time in their lives. The tour for their spouses serves as a warning to the women to be 'virtuous helpers' and not bad instigators." In more than 80% of corruption cases, the report notes, wives and other relatives of the corrupt officials are involved in the crimes...
...were given their own state and it was supported by the West to the same degree as the state of Israel is supported; if we stopped demonizing Iran and Syria; if we opened a meaningful and respectful dialogue with the states of the Middle East; if we stopped supporting corrupt Arab regimes; if Britain and America stopped their gun-running activities; and if Muslim leaders in Britain were making it sufficiently clear in the public forum that the taking of any human life is evil. Jim McCluskey Twickenham, England...
...prominent regime-connected ayatullah had recently begun importing small, laptop-size satellite dishes. If the government rounded up the ungainly, rooftop dishes, and flooded the market with the discreet little one, everyone would be forced to buy the ayatullah's son's dishes. This connection between regime piety and corrupt wealth dominates how Iranians see the world - the little events that transpire in their daily lives, from bread shortages to satellite raids...
...elections for President, Congress and 27 state governors. With more than 100 of the legislature's 513 deputies implicated in the scandal and further revelations emerging almost daily, distrust of politicians has reached record levels. But even if many voters now believe that whomever they choose will be corrupt, they can't simply stay away from the polls, because voting is compulsory under Brazil's constitution. That's why campaigns aimed at convincing people to spoil their ballots are gathering pace. "There is widespread disappointment," admits Marco Aurelio Mello, the president of the country's federal electoral court. "People...