Word: graftings
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...Kansas-born, Roman Catholic Jim Redmond has been a rising light in U.S. public education since 1940, when he became assistant to Kansas City Superintendent Herold Hunt, who later moved to Chicago, taking Redmond with him. Both men won renown for cleaning up Chicago's graft-ridden public schools. When Hunt became an education professor at Harvard in 1953, Redmond went to New Orleans...
...happily joined the army, now 28,000 strong, but it soon became clear that the attraction was not patriotism but the pay, which amounts to roughly triple the amount an average Laotian makes farming or growing opium, the country's only cash crop. Economic aid largely disappeared in graft among Vientiane's ruling politicians, mostly related to one another, who alternate between government office and vacations on the French Riviera. Despite the U.S.'s best efforts, the main highway out of Vientiane is still paved only as far as the tennis court of a former defense minister...
...Schlafly seemed an unlikely man for the job. Vice president of a family business (bottled water), Dan Schlafly, 47, is a Roman Catholic who never attended a public school* and never sent his three children to one. As it turned out, Schlafly has done more to clean up graft in public schools than anyone in the history of the city...
...since they would know how to cater to the public. Mark Twain was often deserted by his light touch when he contemplated politics, though he contributed a pair of memorable definitions: a Senator is someone who "makes laws in Washington when not doing time"; and "public office is private graft...
...running 15 times exports and with half the national budget met by U.S. funds, the Democrats have promised to raise army pay 35% to calm the junior officers, who are still forcing senior officers to resign, and to give government clerks a 60% raise to discourage the taking of graft. Problem is where to find the money. Chang's men claim they could get it painlessly by confiscating the ill-gotten gains of Rhee's ministers. Privately, they admit such confiscations would be only a drop in the bucket. They would like to have the U.S. foot...