Word: corruptible
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...Jersey's Casino Control Commission, the New Jersey legislature and the Philadelphia city council. When the FBI sting ended, its supervisors alleged that the honey pot of Arab money had attracted one U.S. Senator, seven members of the House and two dozen state and local officials or their corrupt cronies-all stung by facing possible charges of accepting bribes or being caught in an illegal conflict of interest...
...disagree that many of the SAVAK agents have been justly punished by Khomeini or that some members of the past regime were corrupt. But for Rev. Kimball to say "almost everyone had a brother or father who had been taken away or could pull up his pants leg and show burn marks and say "Look what SAVAK did to me'," is a very one-sided, general and unsupported remark for a man who was only in Iran 11 days. There are 35 million Iranians. How many did he meet? What Rev. Kimball saw was only what he was scheduled...
...Turin in next year's local elections, although Novelli has perhaps a slightly better hope of remaining in office. Whatever the outcome, says University of Rome Sociologist Franco Ferrarotti, an independent leftist, "the myth of the Communists' administrative efficiency has been exposed. The Christian Democrats may be corrupt, but they have the experience of government. The Communists are simply not yet equipped to govern...
Havana on the eve of revolution: Batista's people clinging to their corrupt ways; Castro's men closing in on the cap ital; and Sean Connery, as a soldier of fortune, flying in to try to help the govern ment turn the tide. Sounds lively...
...townspeople of Romans resented the same fiscal injustice, but theirs was a more complicated grievance. Taxes went into the pockets of corrupt administrators and stayed there. Instead of paying their bills, these unscrupulous city fathers ran up an enormous municipal debt, then lent the city the money they had embezzled -at considerable interest...