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"Here is your bribe," they yelled.
Worse, the traffic policeman who takes your bribe may take one next from a drunk or a terrorist.
If you can't pay your bribe or if you run into drunken cops or if you're a dark-skinned immigrant from the Caucasus, then you might wind up kissing their truncheons and boots with your whole body.
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Did you take your bribes through this or that company?' And they go all rigid".
Across the decades, one finds a familiar cast of literary types: the thuggish politicians who take your bribes, the drug dealers who ply you with cheap painkillers, the pimps who sell your sisters, the police who beat you to a pulp, the Islamists who censor your books and trash your cinema, and — of course — the unacknowledged, but omnipresent, Big Man.
Teacher: And you might not even get the right vaccine even after giving out your bribes.
Think about what each person on your list would value most, and personalize your bribes.
In a corrupt country, "you are only as good as your last bribe", said one executive at the Prague conference.
Compensation – and, depending on your perspective, bribes – were sent north to those who could influence the union vote in the Scottish parliament.
"You see that your subordinates are taking bribes, your boss is taking bribes, but there's nothing you can do.
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