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...West Africa it is known as dash, in Latin America as la mordida (the bite), in Italy la bustarella (the little envelope). By whatever name, bribery and associated tactics-outright payoffs to clerks and customs inspectors, "contributions" to political parties, the hiring of government officials as "consultants" -have long been accepted in many countries as the normal, natural way to get any business done. U.S. companies operating overseas must somehow adjust to that atmosphere. But the biggest scandal in American business right now is that too many seem to have become a part...
...failure to comply with the law would have meant an end to the federal funds that comprise about a third of the University's budget. Harvard's outright resistance consisted of a Faculty resolution asking Congress to delay in the November 19 implementation date...
...called the statement in The Gazette "an outright attempt to emotionalize the issue...
...they have expanded round the world, U.S.-based multinational corporations have poured hundreds of millions of dollars into dozens of foreign countries. In some of these, outright bribery or thinly disguised payoffs to politicians are the accepted way of getting just about anything done-from obtaining routine licenses to killing unfavorable tax legislation. "There is no universal ethical absolute," says Gulf Oil Corp. Chairman Bob Dorsey. "What is immoral to some is perfectly correct to others." The willingness of American corporations to go along with this system has now exploded into a spreading scandal, and the bad publicity has embarrassed...
Kissinger intended to go much further. A supposedly final draft of his speech, circulated by the State Department to other Government agencies for review, called outright for sweeping agreements covering a broad range of raw materials. But other Administration officials, upset by so abrupt a departure from past insistence that market forces should determine prices, appealed to President Ford and got the "case-by-case" wording substituted...