Word: corrupts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...accepting money from the KTA, with such obvious links to the corrupt and repressive Park regime, the University exhibits a drastic leap of faith. The acceptance of the grant should not be construed as an acceptance on the University's part of the policies of the Korean regime, nor should the grant create any pressure on members of the East Asian Research Center to alter their attitudes toward Korea. The money, detached from any outside pressures, could be a meaningful contribution to the furtherance of the Center's research, despite the dubious nature of its source...
...week contract to write film scripts he had no choice but to accept. That his frustrating last years in Hollywood, when he tried, desperately, to make enough money in the movies and then leave, did not hurt Fitzgerald's talents, is Dardis's thesis. California did not corrupt writers, Dardis argues; it merely gave them what they needed...
...undue willingness to compromise, while simultaneously providing an opening for the Trotskyites, who deliberately sabotaged their rival party on the Left. The liberals, on the other hand, regularly deserted the party to vote for "progressive" candidates such as Fiorello La Guardia and Franklin D. Roosevelt whose ties to corrupt and reactionary political machines made it unthinkable for Thomas to endorse them...
...will pick up, we think. After all, the setting does look like the Gay Nineties, the heroes are whisking between London and Paris, and we know the industrial revolution has left a lot of nouveau riche loot lying around. Yet Belmondo keeps running into pushovers--sycophantic social climbers and corrupt concubines--and it looks as though all of Paris has conspired to make his capers unchallenging. After a half-a-film full of perfunctory purloining, he hopes to gain fresh inspiration from a legendary thief, Cannonier, recently released from Devil's Island. But Cannonier has gone off on a revolutionary...
...avoid another kind of hypocrisy, it would seem advisable for the new administration to terminate the close relationship that has developed over the years with South Korea, not merely because that relationship demands our troops in an uncontrollable situation, nor because it legitimizes a corrupt and authoritarian regime, but because the health of the American political system demands that we terminate...