Word: corruption
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...presided over the most corrupt administration in Illinois history--and that is saying something.' JUDY BAAR TOPINKA, former state treasurer, on the federal indictment of Rod Blagojevich...
...punishing the achievers for the mistakes and the lack of discipline on the part of a bunch of corrupt politicians that have run that city and state into the ground.' Radio host RUSH LIMBAUGH, announcing plans to sell his New York City condo because of the so-called millionaires' tax in the state's new budget...
...check on South Africa's government than they do in, say, Zimbabwe, the party's critics see the same bad underlying dynamics at work. Andrew Feinstein, a former ANC MP who resigned in 2001 in protest at the way his party was frustrating an investigation into a corrupt $5 billion arms agreement (the same deal from which Zuma was alleged to have benefited), says the last few years have seen a "regression in Africa's proudest democracy that seeps into some of those stereotypes of African Big Men." Raymond Suttner, a former ANC activist who was detained from...
...high quality news coverage and strong investigative reporting. Globe coverage has served a necessary role in researching and reporting on issues pertinent to readers in our region. For example, the paper recently exposed a dubious Massachusetts health insurance deal, and gave voice to public demand for the resignation of corrupt state senator Dianne Wilkerson. By virtue of its undeniably high level of journalism and important public function, The Boston Globe demands preservation...
...diverted by the military for sale in private markets, which have become increasingly important in feeding the population. So halting aid not only risks another humanitarian disaster in the North - Kim presided over a famine that killed nearly a million North Koreans in the 1990s - but also reduces corrupt officers' incomes...