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Last week's GAO study, however, makes plain that the current American law is riddled with complicating ambiguities and shortcomings. Many of the problems arise from confusion over what constitutes a bribe. So-called grease payments, such as fees to get low-level civil servants to perform their bureaucratic duties of stamping documents and processing licenses, are specifically permitted on the grounds that petty corruption is unavoidable almost anywhere. But there is a large gray area between that sort of bureaucratic paper shuffling and the discretionary authority of local officials to withhold approval for a project or license...
Despite this uninspiring performance, the school will almost certainly secure the Department of Labor's blessing. Administrator's grudging steps in the last months--increasing its employment advertising, seating a handful of students on admissions committees, and hiring its first woman associate professor (Mary Jo Bane) and four low-level minority instructors--will likely satisfy the department's "goodfaith" requirement...
...peacemaker, returned from successive visits to the two warring capitals with an agreement in principle for freeing 63 merchant ships trapped in the Shatt al Arab waterway. Said he: "The first ray of hope." In Washington, a high State Department official was less sanguine: "It's a bloody low-level conflict, a bit like the trench warfare of World War I. It could...
Muller said the facility, which would be built on Binney St. in East Cambridge, for the most part plans work at the low-level P-1 and P-2 containment levels, with only one research room designed for higher level P-3 experimentation...
...Eastern province. In defense of their oil, the Saudi government last week put in a quick but urgent request for new military hardware from the U.S. Washington sent four highly sophisticated surveillance aircraft, which are known as AWACS and carry radar equipment sensitive enough to detect both high-and low-level bombers more than 230 miles away...