Word: corruptible
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...knew of and fought for a better way. I'm not as sure as I once was of what, exactly, that way was, but the idea of people refusing to accept--indeed, revel in--the system of values that now prevails here appeals to me. Here was a deeply corrupt world, where murder and suffering were deeply institutionalized, and Harvard was preparing people blithely to take their places in it and indeed helping to shape it; and students were objecting...
...free to spend as much as they pleased, and the less well off could, if they were clever enough, raise any amount of money and promise their benefactors anonymity. In 1907, Congress enacted a ban on corporate giving, but this proscription was often blithely and safely ignored. The Federal Corrupt Practices Act of 1925 continued to outlaw corporate contributions, tried to make candidates report what they had spent and started a feeble attempt to set up some spending limitations. One fact reveals the law's in effectiveness: no member of Congress was ever punished for breaking...
...they were selling, fraudulently misrepresented the economic condition of the city, they've cooked the books. They've done all kinds of things for which people get prosecuted--for which the directors of the Franklin National Bank are being prosecuted." In short, he says, the city government is a "corrupt, criminal operation...
Suddenly, with the shock of a sharp right punch coming out of nowhere in the Philadelphia slums, Rocky becomes an astonishingly uplifting film that asserts that the American dream has been reborn. Rejecting the recently all-too-tempting directors' urge to make films about antiheroes who are as corrupt and malicious as the systems they fight, director John G. Avildsen has probed the boxing world to tell the all-American story of Rocky who jumps from obscurity to the lights...
...judgeships and other political favors. According to Nadjari's office, one possible target of the inquiry being conducted by a grand jury was Bronx Democratic Boss Patrick J. Cunningham, whom Carey appointed state Democratic chairman in 1974. Nadjari also claimed that "critical evidence growing out of investigations into corrupt judges, public officials, elected officials and politicians" was leaked in recent weeks to "a political leader" by someone outside his office...