Word: corrupts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Because hapless Truman Newberry spent the then shocking sum of $195,000 to win a U.S. Senate seat from Michigan in 1918, Congress-six years later -passed the Corrupt Practices Act. The law's principal proviso is that no single donor may give more than $5,000 to any one national campaign organization. As a result, candidates who are seriously interested in winning commonly set up dozens of such organizations; thus a big contributor can simply spread his largesse around in $5,000 wads...
Most Washington hands agree that if the Corrupt Practices Act were strictly enforced, many of the nation's Senators and Representatives would be in jail. They might even be enough for a quorum. This year, however, the incoming Republican Administration faces an unusual problem. Under pressure from Attorney General Ramsey Clark, the clerk of the House of Representatives, former Congressman Pat Jennings, a Democrat, has taken the unprecedented and even-by sedate congressional standards -slightly ungentlemanly step of turning over to the FBI a list of organizations that had been delinquent in filing their accounts. The offenders include...
Peace among South Asian ethnic groups was shattered when the colonial rulers handed power to corrupt and elitist native bureaucracies, Lee said. "Free enterprise was stifled because of ideology, or because the entrepreneurs belonged to minority groups," he added, and many of the area's best minds migrated to the West...
...Later goondas, or hooligans, joined in, and the demonstrators turned violent, burning buses and cars. By last week, the riots had spread through West Pakistan, causing four deaths and 70 arrests. The protesters echoed Bhutto's charges that Ayub's government is undemocratic and corrupt. Bhutto in turn helped fuel the riots. In the midst of the demonstrations, he set out on a whistle-stop tour from Peshawar to Lahore, declaring that "we do not want bloodshed, but we are not afraid of bloodshed. I am with the students in their struggle, for they are fighting against tyranny...
...planning of the Packer High Command. Kramer starts on Tuesday-by Thursday it is too late-working up "an anger, then a hatred," to the point where on one occasion he considers kicking a fallen opponent in the spine. What kind of victory, what kind of money, justifies this corrupt make-believe is a problem he confesses is beyond...