In their search for a community to host a second Deep Geological Repository for spent nuclear fuel, the federal NWMO may seem to be taking a more reasonable, less bribery-centric approach than the provincial OPG and at very least they are considering twenty one potential waste sites instead of just one.
Conveniently, you've discovered a back door to your country's treasury, or a slick method for friction-less bribery, and . . .
Less subtle bribery was commonplace too.
To Spitzer, "spinning" represented nothing less than commercial bribery.
AIPAC's practices constitute nothing less than legalized bribery of American politicians.
While the American system of government may be less subject to bribery and overt nepotism than China's, in many ways our capitalist economy and democratic politics are dominated by "too big to fail" corporations and public-sector bureaucracies — institutions far less monolithic than the Chinese Communist Party, but similarly influential and unaccountable.
That is corruption, no less than is bribery.
And we will need to resort to bribery less often.
The saga has been closely watched for its potential impact on the balance of the power in the US Senate and the ability of prosecutors to convict politicians for any form of bribery less blatant than a briefcase of cash left on an office desk.
In Brooklyn, however, voters were willing to give Mr. Boyland another chance even though he was arrested last year on bribery charges, less than three weeks after being acquitted in a different bribery case.
But in Brooklyn, Assemblyman William F. Boyland Jr., who was arrested last year on bribery charges less than three weeks after being acquitted in a different bribery case, fended off six challengers to win the Democratic nomination in a heavily Democratic district.
