Word: graftings
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With this back of interested voters, the council has become a club for the politically-inclined. The students with only a sincere desire to serve the community (rather than themselves) quickly flee once the graft and corruption comes into view. Those who are left have a field day honing their skills at weaseling and waffling...
...White House chief of staff, finally got Solicitor General Robert Bork to do the job, and so the "Saturday Night Massacre" ended, leaving the Nixon Administration a shambles. (In the midst of all this, it was almost incidental that Vice President Spiro Agnew resigned under fire for having taken graft and that he was replaced by Michigan Congressman Gerald Ford...
...income participation securities), as well as LYONS, TIGRS and CMOs. A decade ago, if you wanted to work on Wall Street, you went to business school; but now you can study genetics and end up at Merrill Lynch, where instead of splitting genes to clone an elk, you can graft a share of Snapple (which doesn't pay a dividend) onto a dividend, thus creating the Snapple ELK -- a dividend-paying fictitious concoction that rises and falls in value along with Snapple itself...
...potentially explosive unknown in the realignment is the Tokyo prosecutor's office. Its expanding investigation into political corruption has netted five local government officials and 24 construction-compa ny executives on graft charges. Insiders say the prosecutors are closing in on national politicians. Rumors are flying about who may end up as a target for interrogation: not the least frequently named is Ozawa, who was fingered by a construction executive as the recipient of a questionable campaign donation. The furious Shinseito chief has denied any wrongdoing...
...Doctors have devised an in utero operation for treating myelomeningocele, a birth defect in which the spinal cord protrudes from the spine, leading to paralysis and incontinence. The operation, which uses a skin graft to patch the spine, has been tested successfully in sheep...