Word: corruptable
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...House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs, estimated that the properties, which include the gilt- leafed Crown Building on Fifth Avenue and a new nine-story shopping mall in Herald Square, are worth $350 million. "Mr. and Mrs. Marcos are now in the world class of corrupt national leaders," Solarz said. "They may have secretly led a headlong, multibillion-dollar flight of capital out of their country...
...FELLOW STUDENTS, I write these words with a heavy heart. Just as Woodward and Bernstein were torn with agony when they had to reveal that our government was corrupt, so do I suffer...
...OFTEN we think of the men who make our important national decisions as intellectually incapable of their jobs, morally corrupt, ideologically arrogant, or lacking the necessary mix of toughness and finesse. Too often we are right...
...existing legal or social system does not collapse because of assault upon it by superior logic. Systems collapse through their own inner rot. Corrupt systems do not collapse, only rotten ones...
...down," said a U.S. policymaker. "Orders are issued at the center, but nothing happens in the provinces." The situation did little to convince the Reagan Administration that Marcos could meet what has emerged as the principal U.S. demands: military reform, open elections and an efficient economy freed from the corrupt grasp of Marcos' cronies. The ultimate fear: an eventual Communist takeover that would result in the loss of a longtime ally and deprive the U.S. of critical military installations at Clark Air Force Base and the Subic Bay Naval Station...