Word: graft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...realm of honest graft, Clinton didn't do anything Bob Dole didn't do; he and his party just did it with the seal of the White House behind them. What does a $25,000 contribution to the Democratic National Committee mean? It will get an event with Al Gore at the vice-presidential mansion. Twice that amount gets a party of 10 people into the White House to see the President. And $100,000? That's a small dinner with the President at the Hay Adams Hotel just across from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue...
...those obstacles were behind him last week, though, as he left the hospital. "To the naysayers who said I would never recover from this procedure, well, here I am," Getty told reporters. Still, his struggle is far from over. It will be several weeks before doctors know if the graft successfully took hold, and months before they can be sure that Getty's slowly strengthening immune system has accepted the foreign tissue permanently. Most doctors don't believe Getty has much chance of success. But considering the alternative, he doesn't have a thing to lose. --By Christine Gorman. Reported...
...office, but says he was following in the footsteps of his predecessors, who routinely used the slush fund to finance election campaigns, bribe opposition politicians and invest for personal profit. The real fallout could come if prosecutors discover that Kim Young-sam, elected in 1992 as an anti-graft crusader, accepted money from Roh. "Roh is like the Heidi Fleiss of Korean politics," says former Seoul bureau chief David Jackson. "There's no doubt that he could bring down quite a few political figures with what he knows. The big question is: will he take all the blame personally...
...says he was following in the footsteps of his predecessors, who routinely used the slush fund to finance election campaigns, to bribe opposition politicians and to invest for personal profit. The real fallout could come if prosecutors discover that Kim Young-sam, elected in 1992 as an anti-graft crusader, accepted money from Roh. But although the president insists he has taken "not a single cent" from Roh's funds, most Koreans seem to think he's lying: public opinion polls show that 74 percent believe he took money from Roh during the elections, and 70 percent think...
...late Philippines dictator after she was sworn into office by Chief Justice Andres Narvasa, the judge who helped unseat her husband from the presidency in 1983 . Best known for her shoe collection, the former first lady -- who is free on bail while appealing a 24-year sentence for graft -- exploited her flair for the impossible by winning a three-way race to represent her native province of Leyte by a landslide 33,000 votes five months ago. Election officials had ruled that Mrs. Marcos was not a legal resident of the province and refused to let her take her seat...