Word: kickback
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there aren't superb teachers; there are teachers who inspire kids to become astronauts, presidents of the United States--even to become teachers themselves--and give them the tools they need to achieve those goals, But there are also far too many teachers who see their job as a kickback and who assign fill-in-the blank worksheets all day. If salaries were high enough, getting a job as a teacher would be a more selective process...
...Rostenkowski took at least $50,000 in cash disguised as office purchases of stamps from the House post office -- the 17-count indictment outlined a collection of schemes that allegedly cost taxpayers more than $500,000. In the most damning part, it accused Rostenkowski of a kickback scam in which he put 14 people on his payroll for no-show jobs and such tasks as taking pictures at the weddings of his daughters and mowing the lawn at his summer home...
...voter rebellion has been simmering for a long time. Decades of misrule have brought the institutions of government to a state of collapse. In the past 20 months more than 3,000 politicians and businessmen have been implicated in an ever expanding web of billion-dollar kickback and bribery scandals. High taxes, unemployment over 10% and an influx of immigrants have finally driven the normally sanguine Italians into a rage...
...four decades, the same handful of politicians and parties claimed power as a bulwark against bolshevism. But once the threat of a communist government in Rome fizzled, the cozy coalition system began to implode. In the past year, magistrates have uncovered a spaghetti of corruption -- illicit political payments, bribery, kickbacks and outright thievery -- so tangled that even the tolerant, rule-bending Italians have been shocked. Many watched with a mixture of glee and dismay as nearly 2,500 of the country's political and business elite, from former Prime Ministers and corporate executives to legislators and businessmen, were either arrested...
With the lira down and the nation rocked by the Mani Pulite, or Clean Hands, kickback investigations, Italians need some good economic news. They looked for it, naturally, in the Milan fall ready-to-wear shows, just ended, hoping in part that a recovering U.S. economy will send a windfall of clothing orders their way. One enticement: with the weaker lira, price tags will be at least 15% lower than last year's. But the critics' reviews were mixed. Clown motifs, gold frogging, Tyrolean touches or military flourishes cluttered many of the outfits and seemed inappropriate for local customers...