Word: corrupts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been charged that the Nixon Administration is the most corrupt in history. Do you agree...
Salazar believed that economic development would corrupt his country, and, as many tourists have discovered, Portugal retains a sometimes medieval charm. The Caetano government, on the other hand, is firmly committed to industrial expansion, but is, paradoxically, afraid to innovate to bring it about. As the lackluster election campaign demonstrated, Portugal is thus likely to remain asleep for the foreseeable future...
...well as people. Significantly, they are professions that are deeply revered and mistrusted for their power over life. Last year's Wonderland was about doctors-an old medical megalomaniac and his foster son. The new novel, her sixth, concerns lawyers. Marvin Howe is a Nietzschean criminal lawyer-vainglorious, corrupt, wondrously successful, obsessed with his control over people. His opposite number is less obviously a monster. Jack Morrissey defends social outcasts and agitators, the teeming poor of Detroit. He lives simply, but is just as bewitched by power as Howe...
...obviously unfortunate when the vice president of the United States turns out to be corrupt," Lipset said. "But I think this, combined with the Mideast war, will go a long way to taking Nixon off the hook...
...Corrupt...