Word: corruptive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Their buckaroo journalism is better at exposing a corrupt county commissioner than at exploring the consequences of a commission's zoning plans. Only belatedly have the papers seen the ecological risks of overdevelopment, and the failing has been greatest in such boom towns as Orlando and Fort Myers. Further, the all-out coverage after eruptions like the Miami riots does not make up for a lack of reporting about tensions as they build...
...government of President Shehu Shagari has belatedly taken some steps to curb spending and slow the runaway growth of the corrupt and bloated Nigerian bureaucracy. The Shagari government in December proposed a 12% cutback in government spending from 1981 levels. Additional austerity measures included the restrictions on the use of official cars by ministers and civil servants, a government-wide clampdown on foreign junketing, and a ban on unauthorized international telephone calls...
Lawrence Mayer, a professor of statistics at Wharton, U Penn's business school, in Philadelphia, was removed from the directorship of the Wharton Analysis Center in late Mach following the first phase of an investigation prompted by many accusations of corrupt practices at the center...
...loyal alumnus, I am ashamed that the University is associated with an organization as corrupt and heavy-handed as Harvard Real Estate, Inc. HRE has not only intimidated thousands of Cambridge residents, including several city council members and the last mayor (consider Francis Duehay's letter of 7/15/81 to President Bok), it has embarrassed or angered hundreds of area alumni and faculty and other members of the Harvard community. It is a blight on the University, which, I hope, will soon disappear. Robert Epstein, Ph.D...
...rise to power was nothing less than a miracle. Said Carlos, the governing elder of the church: "We feel a great door has opened. We don't understand what is going to happen, but he will be operating with a power that is not like men's corrupt power. He is going to have an anointing from...