Word: grafts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Everyone has heard stories of the inefficiency and graft in that office. Trouble is, they are not all stories. And its student-be-damned attitude is especially annoying. Let me relate my recent experiences...
...mice could not resist infection from bacteria. Their graft-rejection mechanism was severely impaired, and as a result their skins accepted grafts not only from unrelated strains of mice but even from a different species...
...usually was. Stanton angrily swept the graft and inefficiency out of the War Department, set about building the greatest army in the U.S.'s young history. He early spotted the weakness in McClellan and the greatness in Grant. Anyone who wanted to talk to him had only to show up in his reception room. Writes Hyman: "Stanton personified force and competence as he stood behind the tall desk, looking each visitor squarely, almost defiantly, in the eye, his wide forehead flushed, his complexion dark and mottled, his lips compressed above his immense black beard, which gave off a mixed...
There was little doubt that the case had more to do with what Ebtehaj had been saying than what he had been doing. In speeches and to visitors, he had openly criticized the corruption, graft, and suppression of freedom on the highest levels of the Iranian government, even within the Shah's court. Word of his criticism reached Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi himself, leading some to suggest that Ebtehaj's real offense was lese majest...
...doctor fighting disease among his country's poverty-stricken peasants. But after four years, Haiti's 3,750,000 Negroes are still no better off (annual per capita income: less than $100), and the Duvalier regime has turned into the traditional model of a dictatorship, gobbling up graft and relying on strongman methods to keep itself in power. All the while, Duvalier, who in the past four years has received some $30 million in U.S. aid to keep his people from starving, angrily insists that Washington send him still more dollars...