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...days after his inauguration, De la Madrid asked the 400-member National Congress to broaden the government's powers to crack down on graft. He announced a sharp cut in government subsidies for such basic commodities as sugar and gasoline. He sent a draconian budget to the Congress, calling for a $ 12 billion, or 50%, cut in the budget deficit for 1983. He also proposed an ambitious plan for government decentralization to help prevent urban paralysis in Mexico City, one of the world's most congested (pop. 16 million) and polluted capitals. The President then made a whirlwind...
Mexico's new chief executive also pledged to move forcefully against the public graft and featherbedding that had flourished under Lopez Portillo. Said De la Madrid: "Mexicans are a deeply moral people and they demand that I pursue all forms of corruption. I will govern by example...
...shared a common concern for Zionism, the Democratic Party, and social reform. His most revealing finding is the one most newspapers have already trumpeted: that for 22 years Frankfurter operated as Brandies's paid political lieutenant. The justice's regular payments to Frankfurter did not amount to graft in the commonly used sense of the term. Instead, they constituted a "joint endeavours account"--a fund Brandeis provided for Frankfurter to use to lobby legislators and bureaucrats to further their common political agenda...
Currently doctor remove at least two in check of skin on both sides of the tumor along with the turner itself, leaving a large gap that must be covered with a short graft. The report recommends cutting out much smaller amounts of skin around the turn or. The smaller hole can be closed with side to side seizure, which is simpler to perform and leaves considerably less scarring than a skin graft...
...confronted not only the small, vociferous Communist and Socialist parties but also a gaggle of zealots appealing to all the embittered victims who felt that the New Deal had failed them. The most dangerous and fascistic of these, in Roosevelt's eyes, was Huey Long, who had combined graft, violence and promises of "Every Man a King" to build a kind of populist police state in Louisiana. Long was already threatening to run for President when he was shot down in the late summer of 1935 by a man whose family he had ruined. Almost equally malign...