Word: bribed
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...used to be the best bribe in politics, a payoff to the people that never failed to win support or votes. Then came Ross Perot and the Greenspan-Clinton deficit-reduction plan of 1993, which kicked off an eight-year economic paradise of balanced budgets, high growth and low inflation. Tax cuts, especially tax cuts for people that already had money, were selfish and irresponsible...
...judge in Kingston, Jamaica, ordered an arrest warrant for Sade after she failed to appear at a hearing on reckless-driving charges. "It wasn't really a traffic incident, to be honest," says Sade, who claims that a Jamaican policeman tried to pressure her into giving him a bribe. "It got blown into some incredible farcical event." In order to avoid arrest, Sade says she plans never to return to the island...
...judge in Kingston, Jamaica, ordered an arrest warrant for Sade after she failed to appear at a hearing on reckless-driving charges. "It wasn't really a traffic incident, to be honest," says Sade, who claims that a Jamaican policeman tried to pressure her into giving him a bribe. "It got blown into some incredible farcical event." In order to avoid arrest, Sade says she plans never to return to the island...
...from a variety of careers who could give students a better sense of their options and how to achieve them. Artist-alumni could be invited to speak, providing encouraging examples. Additionally, continuing to update the resources in the Reading Room, offering portfolio reviews and holding discussions with the standard bribe of free pizza for attendance would all be extremely beneficial. Not only would such plans ease student worries about the daunting task of entering the art world, but they would also give students the essential recognition and respect that they need in order to strive for and obtain their goals...
...suit, the company contends that Hay and Shleifer used federal funds allocated through HIID to bribe Russian government officials with "cash, no-show jobs, exorbitant and unjustified compensation and benefits, and exorbitant and unjustified housing allowances." The Russian officials, the suit contends, deposited these payments in foreign bank accounts to evade taxation...