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In 1871, Congress gave Washington limited voting rights to elect a local governor, only to take those rights away a few years later because of accusations of corruption and financial mismanagement, and also because the city had so many blacks.
Musharraf accused former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif of weakening the military, crippling the economy, and tolerating corruption.
But there are genuine regionalism lurking in both the written and the spoken language: corinna (an Aboriginal name for the Tasmanian tiger), mariner (a corruption of the Aboriginal merrina for a seashell used as a physical ornament), quoib (an Aboriginal term for a wombat), and wing-wang (again an Aboriginal term, this time for a fiery piece of lighted bark thrown by Aborigines).
The former KGB agent realizes corruption threatens Russia's economy, and unlike Yeltsin, he is focused on his presidential duties.
But for whatever reason, the view that members of the media have a special propensity for corruption has grown in intensity since Clinton ran for president in 1992.