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Enter David Hale, an Arkansas judge and head of a lending company that was backed by federal money. Hale claims that in 1986, Clinton, who had appointed him to the bench, and McDougal pressured him to arrange a $300,000 loan to clean up some dubious Madison Guaranty loans. Hale did approve a loan of that amount to McDougal's wife, but $110,000 went into Whitewater. Clinton denied exerting any pressure and said he had been unaware of such money winding up in Whitewater. Hale proposed to Casey that he have himself wired up to record incriminating conversations, perhaps...
...overeager local politicians are staggering: McDonnell Douglas was offered more than $1 billion in incentives for a planned aircraft plant by several competing cities. In 1991, Minnesota offered Northwest Airlines $840 million in assorted goodies for the privilege of hosting a giant aircraft maintenance center. Ypsilante, Mich. earned the dubious distinction of snagging a GM plant at the cost of $1.5 billion in incentives, only to see GM subsequently shutter the plant and shift production to Arlington, Tex., which offered a fresh round of relocation incentives...
...injustice into major ones also fritters away the most important resource society has, which is voluntary compliance. Individuals are deterred from discriminating not because they will be punished by law but because they internalize the value being asserted in legislation. If dramatic claims are made under more and more dubious circumstances, the public becomes cynical and all protections are in jeopardy...
...travel 25 miles from the capital to barter for his vegetables and meat, but since he has no fertilizer, no pesticides and no electricity to pump water for irrigation, his production will not increase soon. He hopes private ownership will encourage other farmers to grow more, but he is dubious. "Cubans are used to receiving everything from the state," he says...
...sources insist that such payments are often disguised as "consultant fees" to freelance producers or as purchases of video footage. The tabloids too are suffering the consequences of their checkbook journalism. In the wake of the Michael Jackson child-abuse charges, people started coming out of the woodwork offering dubious tales of other alleged abuse involving the singer -- for a price. "Ironically, even the people who'll say good things about Michael Jackson want to get paid," says a tabloid source...