Word: graftings
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Everyone has heard stories of the inefficiency and graft in that office. Trouble is, they are not all stories. And its student-be-damned attitude is especially annoying. Let me relate my recent experiences...
...does to old athletes, friends of friends, big money-givers, old pals. It cares nothing about the students--the team's most loyal, vocal, and knowledgeable supporters. Why can't the ticket agency be completely separate from the HKA? It would then be less susceptible to the blatant graft which now exists. Why can't the students get a better and fairer deal? If we can't run it ourselves we can at least investigate it. Where is the Student Council (or whatever it is called), the CRIMSON, the House Committees? Why must we suffer under this humiliating and corrupt...
...mice could not resist infection from bacteria. Their graft-rejection mechanism was severely impaired, and as a result their skins accepted grafts not only from unrelated strains of mice but even from a different species...
...usually was. Stanton angrily swept the graft and inefficiency out of the War Department, set about building the greatest army in the U.S.'s young history. He early spotted the weakness in McClellan and the greatness in Grant. Anyone who wanted to talk to him had only to show up in his reception room. Writes Hyman: "Stanton personified force and competence as he stood behind the tall desk, looking each visitor squarely, almost defiantly, in the eye, his wide forehead flushed, his complexion dark and mottled, his lips compressed above his immense black beard, which gave off a mixed...
...doctor fighting disease among his country's poverty-stricken peasants. But after four years, Haiti's 3,750,000 Negroes are still no better off (annual per capita income: less than $100), and the Duvalier regime has turned into the traditional model of a dictatorship, gobbling up graft and relying on strongman methods to keep itself in power. All the while, Duvalier, who in the past four years has received some $30 million in U.S. aid to keep his people from starving, angrily insists that Washington send him still more dollars...