Word: corruptive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Alas, by 1983, Nigeria was suffering from the worldwide oil glut and the resulting drop in prices. Its oil revenues had fallen to about $10 billion a year, while its foreign debt rose to an estimated $15 billion. After his reelection, Shagari seemed determined to deal more forcefully with corruption and the growing economic problems than he had before. He created a new ministry charged with rooting out corrupt officials. Just two days before the coup, he delivered an austerity budget aimed at reducing the government's capital spending by 30% and imports by 40%. The belt-tightening was greeted...
...justifying his actions, Abacha cited Nigeria's "grave economic predicament," brought about, he said, by an "inept and corrupt leadership." Oil normally accounts for 90% of Nigeria's export earnings, but the world petroleum glut sent those revenues falling from a peak of $26 billion a year to $10 billion. Corruption in Nigeria is rampant...
...justify his ends--and remain in power. Only with his departure, therefore, will Massachusetts fully embark on an experiment in responsible self-government. Until then, the Commonwealth will probably retain the dubious distinction accorded to it by the historian Samuel Eliot Morison as "the least efficient and most corrupt of modern state governments...
...thrust of the broadcast, you failed to report any of it. I look forward to the day, after the litigation is over, when Americans who did not see the broadcast the first time around will have the opportunity to view it and determine for themselves whether charges of corrupt intelligence practices leveled not by us, but by former high-ranking intelligence officers from the military and the CIA, were or were not accurate...
Sophisticated readers know that by comparison with the highly ideological press in Western Europe-or, for that matter, the noisy, brawling, relentlessly partisan and even corrupt papers that were the norm when the First Amendment was written-the modern U.S. press is distinctively balanced. By the standards of the late 19th and early 20th century era of "yellow journalism," the American reporter today is a model of responsibility and restraint...