Word: corrupt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...past, according to Duehay, the crumbling tax system, a corrupt housing authority and police brutality were the most significant issues facing Cantabrigians...
...country ostensibly because, as she explained in a 1996 deposition in New York, "if a member of the family of the President wanted to have his money outside, it would be politically sensitive." But various combinations of these techniques, employed through various banks, are also favored by tax cheats, corrupt politicians and drug dealers...
Your article on wrestler Jesse Ventura's election as Governor of Minnesota [ELECTION REPORT, Nov. 16] made me question what goes through people's minds when they vote. Has politics become so corrupt that a man with hardly any position on political issues can run for office and stand a chance of winning? EILEEN KELLY Bethpage...
Hoffa's International Brotherhood of Teamsters would not only rival the power of the U.A.W., it would also become known as America's most corrupt union. That the two men, almost polar opposites, should have existed in the same city at the same time is not just remarkable. Their differences would define the deepest schism in American labor, splitting the movement into two irreconcilable camps, one progressive and idealistic, the other conservative and avaricious...
...Kissinger be tried, if the Cambodians demand it. If we believe in justice, and if we believe that our policies are just, then we should be able to support international courts without hesitation. If those courts are corrupt or biased, then that is no reason to avoid them; if we are part of the international community, and we certainly can't claim that we aren't, then the quality of justice in such courts is also in our hands...