It has had its share of scams and crookedness, notably in the southern state of Karnataka, and it lacks ideas for making things better.
America's biggest bankruptcy was not a result merely of commercial misfortune or personal crookedness.
The city's science museum, too, is moving to the bay.All this may come as a surprise to those more familiar with the city's reputation for rash political decisions and financial crookedness.
But cronyism and crookedness pervade the lower and middle levels of the movement, and even the highest dignitaries show a tendency to confuse the party's interests with those of the state.
GIVEN how easy it has been to find something to worry about, be it the plummeting dollar, war in Iraq or the crookedness of so many corporate bosses, it has been easy to miss one extraordinarily positive economic trend: for companies around the world, on average, business has never been better.
In 1997 it bought a stake in Sidanco, a small oil firm, only to end up in a bitter fight with TNK over some of Sidanco's assets—a fight that highlighted the crookedness then commonplace in Russian business and the loopholes in Russian law.
Yet evidence of serious crookedness is everywhere.
Satire on the corruption of banks and holding companies and their crookedness.
Kejriwal was outraged by the brazen crookedness of the Games.
Her nose is perhaps a bit blunt, and she points out the crookedness in her posture, which is the result of childhood scoliosis, but this doesn't prevent downtown style chieftains and scenesters from comparing her to Twiggy and Audrey Hepburn and Edie Sedgwick.
It took us through the Puerta de Europa, defined by two famous parallelogram buildings tilting toward each other — leaning towers instantly suggestive of crookedness or collapse.
