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Indeed, more private-sector involvement would make the kind of scandals that have occurred in China’s railway sector far less likely.
After all, corporations don't have a conscience; it is only the conscience of those who run the corporation, and as America's recent corporate scandals have made all too clear, conscience often takes a backseat to profits.
Moreover, the LDP was plagued by a string of minor scandals and consistent bungling.
But Arbuckle’s career was ruined, the victim of an ambitious prosecutor and a popular press that made money out of scandals.
But it is facile to jump from individual corporate scandals to broad conclusions about the supposed rottenness of the American economy.
While the media have tended to focus on big-ticket corruption, such as that revealed by ongoing scandals concerning on the allocation of spectrum to telecom companies or the organization of the Commonwealth Games, petty corruption has often affected people more directly.
Their only explicit instruction to Prodi is that he should lay out a programme of administrative reform so as to avoid a re-run of the administrative scandals which brought down Santer.
The US-Saudi relationship has been a rocky one, and its setbacks and scandals have mostly played out away from the public eye.
Putin’s inaction looks like weakness, and these scandals discourage foreign investment.
“We can’t have any scandals around here,” our course commander told us.
Faced with mounting corruption scandals, both Lula and former President Dilma Rousseff, also of the Workers’ Party, routinely invoked us-versus-them rhetoric.
The new government was itself soon ensnared in corruption scandals, and its popularity plummeted.
What bad news there is – industrial scandals (like that at Volkswagen), airline bankruptcies, endlessly delayed infrastructure projects – does little to dampen the general sense of safety and wellbeing enjoyed by Germany’s Michels.
Their conflict came to a head in 1997, when the Klaus-led government fell after a series of scandals.
The US preaches “good governance” in the shadow of an unprovoked war, congressional bribery scandals, and windfalls for politically connected companies like Halliburton.
After years of decline, the economy is growing; after numerous financial scandals, the banking system is safer.
Since the plan’s adoption, scandals involving overpricing and corruption have multiplied, with many defense executives losing their jobs.
Later, corporate governance scandals in Asia and then in the US, notably after the dot-com bubble and the accounting debacles at Enron, WorldCom, and others, encouraged Europeans to think that the “old continent” had somehow preserved higher standards.
He could have groveled his way through the trial, like other senior Party officials brought down by corruption scandals, and as most defendants have done in the long grim history of communist show trials beginning with Stalin.
Portraying negative coverage as “fake news” has helped Trump to distract from scandals big and small: his family’s conflicts of interest, his dodgy business deals around the world, white supremacists among his senior staff, the rejection of ethics training for senior White House staff, and much else.
While financial and political scandals -- the notorious French "affaires" -- are multiplying, none of the new government members appears to be under the slightest suspicion of involvement; something that could not have been said about the previous ministerial team, or about the entourage that surrounded President Mitterrand.
In the emerging world, Brazil's government has faced multiple corruption scandals.
The Myth of Chinese MeritocracyCLAREMONT, CALIFORNIA – Political scandals sometimes perform a valuable function in cleansing governments.
The official Chinese press is full of corruption scandals of this type.
America's Securities and Exchange Commission's head recognized the problems posed by conflicts of interests in accounting, but his efforts to put in place rules to address the problem met with overwhelming resistance from the industry--until the scandals made change irresistible.
But actual scandals are not necessary for the press to do its job.
Rising interest rates, high inflation, and severe policy gridlock amid a spate of government corruption scandals have impeded both foreign and domestic investment in India, thus slowing economic growth to a level that is below its potential.
Despite the PiS’s constant nepotism scandals and ongoing conflicts with the EU, the judiciary, and business and civil-society groups, its support has not fallen below 35%.
In the 1990s, Italy’s largely bipartisan system disintegrated when Christian Democracy was engulfed by corruption scandals and the Communist Party was pulled apart by the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Indeed, anything worthwhile that a monarch can do, an elected non-executive president can do better – not least because an elected official is much less likely to be undermined by the scandals of pampered offspring or degraded by the inevitable hypocrisy and servility of a royal court.
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