Word: graftings
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...Europeans made a conscious decision not to emphasize conventional arms buildups way back in the 1950s," says a U.S. diplomat. "They opted for the American nuclear umbrella instead. If they want that umbrella to be folded up, they presumably know the consequences and accept them. We can't graft backbone...
...pattern of graft and illegal campaign contributions which Ward's commission discovered is providing the source material for his IOP study group, which is examining the investigation's findings on a case-by-case basis...
EVEN BIGGER PROBLEMS, however, are raised by the screen-play, a collaboration of the husband-and-wife team of John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion. Working from Dunne's novel, the screenwriters apparently felt obliged not to graft any artificial eloquence onto characters who would not normally speak that way. Which is fine. The problems arise when Dunne and Didion substitute a peculiar, grunting short-hand that limits the characters and leaves the curious unenlightened. The poor dialogue, combined with the writers' need to explain a complicated and ever-changing plot, result in a dusultory and lifeless narrative...
...manager of Uncle Sam's Treasury so long, I thought you'd be well heeled." Rogers' homespun irreverence about official greed may be timeless, but Oklahomans today are not laughing. A three-year federal investigation of the state's elected officials has found that graft is routine and nearly ubiquitous in Oklahoma county government, and has added as much as $10 million a year to the state's road-maintenance costs. Only one county commissioner and one businessman have finished their trials so far (both were convicted) and another pleaded nolo contendere. But prosecutors...
...made county commissioners," says Parker, who at 76 is two years older than the state of Oklahoma. "Sure I took kickbacks. I never asked a man for it. They always gave it to me." Says Betty Eisenhour, who as clerk of Canadian County was an unwitting intermediary for the graft: "I always wondered why I was paying middlemen. Now I know. The commissioners were good old boys, but just between you and me, they were thieves...