Word: graftings
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There was little doubt that the case had more to do with what Ebtehaj had been saying than what he had been doing. In speeches and to visitors, he had openly criticized the corruption, graft, and suppression of freedom on the highest levels of the Iranian government, even within the Shah's court. Word of his criticism reached Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi himself, leading some to suggest that Ebtehaj's real offense was lese majest...
...regulatory functions. An airline wanting permission to fly lucrative routes is obviously in a poor position if it has refused to transfer its services to Dulles. And since the FAA has now committed itself by building Dulles, the Agency's position is unlikely to change. There is no graft; no money changes hands; there is only the subtle corruption of the conflict of interest built into the FAA's responsibilities for Washington's air service. For an industry like the airlines, in which growing Federal control is the only alternative to chaos, Dulles is an alarming precedent...
Fabulous Jewels. Bread-and-butter issues won for the Liberals. Macapagal relentlessly charged the Nacionalistas with responsibility for high prices, abuse of office, nepotism and graft. "Mrs. Garcia owns the most fabulous set of jewelry in Southeast Asia!", he told newsmen in an interview; he labeled the Garcia regime the "most corrupt" in Philippine history. The government's own figures supported the charge of corruption: an official report lists 29,717 cases of administrative graft, of which 10,869 resulted in convictions, 5,563 in acquittals, and 13,285 pending...
...bodyguards, precinct workers, fund raisers and propagandists as well as voters. In return, the politicians are expected to keep their adoptive kinsmen out of jail, find places for them on the national payroll. For the country as a whole, the compadre system usually means blood feuds and built-in graft...
...immediate plans to graft Shoebox on any of its information-handling machines, but a bright gleam glows in the eyes of its engineers. They will first increase Shoebox's vocabulary to 1,000 words, then to 10,000. This can be done without much difficulty, they think, since multisyllabic words are comparatively easy to recognize. They will also try to make Shoebox recognize mumbled, slurred, and female voices; at present it can handle only the words of clear-spoken males. Most foreign languages are no problem for Shoebox, but it is baffled by Chinese, Bantu and other tongues that...