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...Menendez, the son of Cuban immigrants, rose under the tutelage of William V Musto, the mayor of Union City from 1962 to 1982, with a four-year interregnum....
...It does seem to be true that widespread graft — or at least the public perception of it — has come down somewhat in India over the past decade....
...(FT) Lula da Silva’s graft convictions quashed A supreme court judge in Brazil has annulled the graft convictions of former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva....
...Some want to graft on cuts to welfare or play hardball with states. Yet others are just awaiting direction from an inscrutable White House....
...Here’s what’s happening out there midsession Thursday: And today’s top-down attempt to graft logic onto the recent money flows comes from UBS: The SPX rose 1.2% [on Wednesday] buoyed by hopes of a $2tn...
...(FT) Romania v Kovesi Bucharest’s centre-left government has stepped up its campaign against its former anti-graft chief, imposing a travel ban and stopping her from speaking to the press....
...To some in the Labour movement, however, his rapid rise is not born out of campaigning graft....
...Obit did not mention Naipaul’s best book: letter from John F May, Bethesda, MD, US Your perceptive obituary of V S Naipaul should have mentioned ‘A Bend in the River’ (1979), which is probably the best...
...All five countries have ingrained graft problems. Not only are their populations furious about being perpetually swindled, but corruption in emerging markets has global implications....
...The people I encounter who are truly successful — it’s impossible to discern what is ambition and graft and discipline, and what is glorious, intuitive, God-given talent....
...A 2009 Supreme Court case involving prescription drug labels, Wyeth v Levine, greenlighted state laws that are stricter than federal laws....
...Yet, like weeds shorn of their leaves, graft will doubtless spring back as lush as ever once the Buhari strimmer is back in its box....
...They are one of only two families to have three generations of work represented in the Smithsonian (the other is the Wyeth family of painters)....
...Mr Balls thinks that Miliband’s totemic “producers v predators” speech in 2011 was naive and counter-productive....
...Housed in a geometrically striking building known to Beijing residents as “the trousers” for its three dimensional inverted V shape, CCTV has long been seen as a state within a state, and its brash, arrogant...
...But, despite opposition attempts to implicate Singh personally in graft scandals, very little dirt has stuck to him....
...the Analysts, Martoma claimed to have “black edge” —illicit, nonpublic information… The Analysts exchanged a number of emails and instant messages with Cohen about whether Martoma’s advice on Elan and Wyeth...
...Meanwhile here’s the DOJ’s sealed criminal complaint in USA v Martoma....
...* Indonesia minister quits over graft charge * Rich states urged to boost climate funds * Morsi offers talks but no concessions * Amazon launches online bookstore in Brazil * Apple to return some Mac...
...Both have merits, but the attempt to graft US-style bits on to the British system, begun under Tony Blair, is producing awkward results....
...“Definitely we will bring it in March in the Budget session,” said V. Narayanasamy, minister of state for personnel....
...Another influence was the Bribery Act, the UK’s overhaul of graft laws which took effect in July last year. “It has meant people are a bit more careful about corporate entertaining,” Mr Armist said....
...“There has been considerable improvement in social welfare in the last five years,” said V. Krishnananth, a Chennai-based author on Indian politics....
...That ability – to graft theme into syntax – is what makes great writing a pleasure to listen to....
...This third day devoted to the economics of proto-industry was about those aspects of 18th-century design that are too often forgotten: not the life of the grandees as recorded in diaries, but the hard graft...
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