Word: corruption
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...Corrupt Charities...
...from the area; the Taliban had apprehended the suspect and extracted a confession before ordering the death penalty. Similar cases of intervention in remote areas have made locals put greater trust in the insurgent movement than in the government's justice system, which is widely viewed among locals as corrupt...
...also faces a challenge in rebuilding a police force whose own director admits that more than half its officers are corrupt. The United States, which helped in the creation and training of the force, has limited the distribution of weapons to police officers because of the criminal element in their ranks...
...personal gain," (63%) "out of touch with what's going on in the country," (63%) and 41% believe that their own Congressman has taken a bribe. Of course, they are still electing them - perhaps as a way of rewarding their sheer stick-to-it-iveness and initiative. Being this corrupt, after all, must be hard work. Between the tabloid stories and the presumption of corruption, no wonder the popular stereotype is that of a tanned professional talker with $100 bills coming out of his pockets and gristle from a Charlie Palmer steak still stuck between his molars...
...Healy has served as city manager since 1981. Bercaw, who says that Healy has “created his own little bureaucracy,” calls the system corrupt because it has allowed one person to control city operations so extensively for so long...