Word: corrupts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...word "corrupt" is often applied to Rhee, yet his enemies never disclose specific examples of corruption. The nearest thing to proof appeared in a Reuters dispatch from Pusan on May 11. On that day, Vice President Lee resigned due to "big-scale embezzlement involving government officials and military officers...
Iranians could use such a non-political mission. For years they have been oppressed by the landlordmerchant governing class; taxes are regressive, administrators corrupt, and famines frequent. Honest and progressive elements are powerless against the numerous, well-heeled special interests and all reforms eventually end up stillborn...
...powers have played little attention to the problem of strengthening Iran. Although the United States has loudly proclaimed its goal of helping underdeveloped countries become strong and independent, the sacredness of state sovereignty has paralyzed government thinking. The reasoning goes thus: Iran needs money; but its government is so corrupt that there can be no American loan without American control over Iranian finances; that is impossible because Iran is a sovereign state...
...award is presented by the Burma Translation Society, which is headed by Prime Minister Thakin Nu. It goes to the best novel of the year, in this case On Pe's Min Hmu Dan ("The Civil Servant"), a story of the corrupt bu reaucracy run by Burmese and British officials during Britain's rule in Burma...
...alone. Stricter standards of moral integrity must be cultivated . . . It is not only gambling syndicates and the public officials who protect them that are involved. All who patronize bookmakers, gambling houses, slot machines and other forms of illegal gambling contribute to the coffers of the syndicates and help to corrupt government...