Word: venal
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...relations between Islamic states and the West. Yet Bhutto's assassination has exposed how little influence the U.S. - or any other outside power - has on the nation that was bloodily carved out of India when the British left 60 years ago, and which has been bedeviled by violence and venal politics ever since...
...decades later. But whereas Burton bent an old legend to comic-horror ends, this time he's not kidding. The shadows aren't faux-ominous, they are expressions of the city's pestilence of selfishness and cruelty, where the motives of virtually everyone - both lowlife and high-born - are venal and verminous...
...have too often indulged. The team rocketed to prominence in the 1980s by showcasing what fans and critics alike called thug-ball, a smash-mouth gridiron style that seemed to reflect the city the Hurricanes played for: Miami in the era of Vice, of violent cocaine cowboys and shamelessly venal politicians. Controversial rap music star Luther Campbell of the Miami group 2 Live Crew offered "bounties" to UM players who could knock opposing players out of a game with an injury. Whenever Notre Dame played UM, the game was billed as Catholics vs. Convicts...
...equally dismal, is to devote oneself purely to the far-less-traveled path of public service and take on constant financial worry along with a set of seemingly intractable problems to solve. Depending on which camp a senior aligns herself with, either those who choose the corporate world are venal or those who don’t are naïve. The division is amusing to banter about, with the same appeal as an old-fashioned Western, before it becomes real—good and evil are starkly defined, and in theory, wearing the white hat will surely make...
...human-rights activists and preservationists say the problems of the hutongs could have been solved if the political will had been there. Instead, they argue, priorities were driven by real estate developers' huge profits and by the widespread corruption that has made stories of collusion between developers and venal officials commonplace even in China's strictly controlled media. Details may never come to light, but the scope of the corruption problem was underscored last year when Beijing's deputy mayor Liu Zhihua was arrested for what the official media described as "corruption and degeneracy." As a consequence of the rebuilding...