Word: corrupts
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...stand here convicted of seeking to corrupt the administration of justice itself. You stand here convicted of hav ing tampered, really, with the very soul of this nation. You stand here convicted of having struck at the very foundation upon which everything else in this nation depends, the very basis of civilization itself, and that is the administration of justice, because without a fair, proper and lawful administration of justice, nothing else would be possible in this country...
...major problems facing the new government are the recent business recession and the nation's creaky, corrupt bureaucracy. To combat the first, Mansur intends to create work by rebuilding 1½ million mudbrick houses inhabited by 75% of Iran's population. As for the bureaucracy, Mansur says he will close down unneeded departments and fire surplus civil servants after giving them lump-sum severance...
...English. French Canada's industry and natural resources are dominated by outsiders from the U.S. or English Canada. Economically, the rest of the country boomed, while in the 1940s and 1950s Quebec lagged-partly through its own doing. The late Premier Maurice Duplessis ruled the province as a corrupt, inbred fief...
...Foreign Minister to the restored monarchy, Talleyrand played the great powers against each other so skillfully at the Congress of Vienna that he frustrated every attempt to form a coalition against France. Though personally corrupt, Talleyrand's diplomatic bond was rarely broken, and he rigorously obeyed the most important rule of successful negotiation: good faith...
Turkey seems to be in the grip of a perpetual crisis. After the army toppled the corrupt, free-spending regime of Premier Adnan Menderes in 1960 and executed him, the military ruled ineffectually for 18 months, then let civilians take over. Durable Ismet Ino-nu became Premier, decided to try to hold the country together amidst the lingering bitterness without curbing parliamentary democracy. Probably no one else could have done it. Inonu, 80, seemed like an embodiment of Turkey's past: born under the Sultanate, he was one of Kemal Ataturk's most dashing revolutionary generals, first became...