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Last week's GAO study, however, makes plain that the current American law is riddled with complicating ambiguities and shortcomings. Many of the problems arise from confusion over what constitutes a bribe. So-called grease payments, such as fees to get low-level civil servants to perform their bureaucratic duties of stamping documents and processing licenses, are specifically permitted on the grounds that petty corruption is unavoidable almost anywhere. But there is a large gray area between that sort of bureaucratic paper shuffling and the discretionary authority of local officials to withhold approval for a project or license...
...gravis, a muscle-weakening disease in which antibodies damage the microscopic junctions where nerves and muscles meet. Because frentizole comes in powder form, the scientists first dissolved it in DMSO, a powerful solvent. Then they injected one group of laboratory rats with the frentizole solution and another group with plain DMSO to serve as a control. To their surprise, they found after a week that both groups of rats had significantly lower levels of the destructive antibodies. Further tests showed that the DMSO alone, not the frentizole, had countered the antibodies. Researcher Pestronk urges caution, however: "Our studies should...
...they found she was suffering from peritonitis. What's a virile guy like me supposed to do? We're winning the war of words in D.C. too. Ling-Ling -that's my new love object-got her keeper to say that Hubby Hsing-Hsing is "just plain inept," and I like the Washington keeper's rugged sports metaphor, that Hsing-Hsing has to avoid hurt feelings like ''a football player when he's taken off the team...
Coach Martin observed. "We knew it was going to be tough without Terry, who's probably the best player in New England, but in that last game, we just choked plain and simple...
...caper makes plain that bank electronic funds-transfer systems are only as trustworthy as the people who use them. Lewis knew the procedural ropes, having earlier in his eleven years with Wells Fargo worked in the bank's computer center. Though federal officials regard Wells Fargo as a well-managed bank, some critics have wondered whether Lewis' scam went on so long in part because the bank has been adding so many branches-nine a year-that finding competent supervisors has been difficult. Cooley concedes that Lewis found "a flaw in our system." But the bank has changed...