Word: graftings
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Reveling in the past, enjoying what they can of the present and disbelieving the future, the Austrians do little about the graft that corrupts the civil service, the entrenched cartel system, the inflation that is one of the worst in Europe...
Reporter Ted Link headed a task force that spaded up paydirt in St. Louis' American Lithofold Co., and turned over enough stones in the RFC and Bureau of Internal Revenue to prove that both were acrawl with graft and influence peddling. As a direct result, National Democratic Party Boss Bill Boyle had to quit his job, and St. Louis' Internal Revenue Collector
...wave of popular demand for housecleaning, he said: "There is nothing wrong with Cuba that an honest administration can't cure." Then the scholarly professor and his successor proceeded to give the island, which has seen plenty of corruption in its time, the most graft-and gangster-ridden government in its history...
...spite of its graft and corruption, there was some good to be said for Cuba's seven-year-old democratic regime. Havana under Grau and Prío was a haven of free speech and free thought. They built schools, hospitals and highways. They gave Cuba a national bank, made loans to expand industry and diversify agriculture, and improved labor standards in a land plagued by seasonal unemployment. And, despite fantastic sums spent to sway elections, they kept the way open for democratic change...
...condition of coming apart is infinitely more serious, more expensive, and indeed more dangerous than all the graft and influence-peddling combined. The corruption is only one of its consequences: the much more serious consequences are the paralysis of decision and the sterilization of thought at the highest levels of our policy...