Word: corrupts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...code of conduct, drawn up by the Swiss National Bank, the country's central financial institution, and the Swiss Bankers' Association. No longer are clients allowed to open a Swiss account without revealing their true identity. Anonymous banking, when it was allowed, was a powerful attraction for corrupt dictators and Mafiosi, among others, seeking to hide their funds. Under the new rules, Swiss bankers are barred from providing active assistance to customers who evade taxes or export capital illegally from foreign countries. The code also forbids bankers to accept funds that they have reason to believe were acquired...
...Signing with Private Stock Records, the group Blondie agreed to change "sex-offender" to "ex-offender." Not all New Wave groups are going to be that docile. The aura of rebellion is crucial to punk's pleasure. Swing-bred parents of the 1950s may have found Elvis Presley corrupt (as did CBS-TV, which cut him off above the pelvis), but the kids loved him. Folk-and rock-bred parents of the 1970s may not love the Dead Boys, but a lot of the kids do. The biggest catastrophe for punk rock would of course be huge success...
Depression and Dynamite. The basic situation of The Wages of Fear is retained. The setting is still an imaginary Latin American dictatorship, more corrupt and depressed than even Conrad might have dreamed up. Once again there has been a blowout in a remote oil well, for which the only remedy is a lot of dynamite. Friedkin carefully-too carefully-sets all this up. He explains just why the well is not reachable by air and why the only available dynamite has aged into a highly volatile condition. Finally, as before, four desperate characters, men with nothing to lose, are recruited...
Miller, who ousted the corrupt regime of W.A. ("Tony") Boyle five years ago, appealed for unity. Said Miller: "It's time for [his opponents] to recognize who the enemies are-the operators." But Runner-Up Patterson, a onetime Boyle crony, criticized the way that the ballot was set up; his supporters had to mark nine different boxes to vote for his candidates, while Miller's backers could select the entire presidential slate by checking only one box. But U.M.W. officials ruled that Patterson failed to line up a complete slate and thus did not qualify for the single...
...evil are always clear. On one side is the bad guy, the man who has flaunted all social and moral conventions by taking the life of another human being. On the other side stands a force representing society, automatically identified as the good guy, no matter how perverse or corrupt the person or organization may be. For example, even Dirty Harry, the psychopathic vengeance-seeker, becomes one of the "good guys" within this basic framework. These opposing forces usually are taken for granted, and most murder mysteries do not delve any further into the matter, save for a few offhand...