Word: ill-gotten
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...abuse for being beholden to so-called special interests, but what does that mean? He has accepted endorsements by organized labor, teachers and womens groups, prominent minorities, and party leaders--backing any one of his opponents would have taken at a moment's notice. These are not ill-gotten friends--they are among the foremost groups being assaulted by Reagan, and Mondale should be proud for their support...
African leaders regularly order crackdowns on profiteering and corruption. Declared President Julius Nyerere of Tanzania last year: "[Economic saboteurs] will have their ill-gotten property confiscated and will be given hoes to work on the land for a very long time." Several hundred suspects are now being held in Tanzanian prisons under the country's Preventive Detention Act. Mozambique's President Samora Machel has publicly berated and fired corrupt government officials, as has Zambia's Kaunda. In Zimbabwe, the four-year-old government of Prime Minister Robert Mugabe has ordered stiff new penalties for corruption, including fines...
...contribute to the building of a decent, law-abiding society in this county if educational institutions are willing to suffer their principles to be prostituted and involve young people in that prostitution for any purpose, and much less for the purpose of winning some games and developing an ill-gotten recognition and income...
Greenback has had precisely that effect. The dealers have found a number of ways to move large amounts of money while avoiding detection by the feds. By this "laundering" process, ill-gotten gains are made to look like legitimate business receipts...
Having lustily enjoyed the ill-gotten geese, pigs and sheep, the poets must swallow an unpleasant truth: moral purity is hard to maintain in an immoral world. To their credit, the writers accept and understand this lesson. Feelings of superiority begin to evaporate. The conclave that opened in smugness draws to a close with increasing humility. The participants realize that art must somehow protect its integrity while mingling in the mud and muddle of life...