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	ABC News: From Cash to Yachts: Congressman's Bribe Menu
		Prices came in the form of a "bribe menu" that detailed how much it would cost contractors to essentially order multimillion-dollar government contracts, according to documents submitted by federal prosecutors for Cunningham's sentencing hearing this Friday.
		The sentencing memorandum includes the California Republican's "bribery menu" on one of his congressional note cards, "starkly framed" under the seal of the United States Congress.
		The card shows an escalating scale for bribes, starting at $140,000 and a luxury yacht for a $16 million Defense Department contract.
	abcnews.go.com /Politics/story?id=1667009&page=1 (360 words)

	Definition of bribe - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
		Etymology: Middle English, morsel given to a beggar, bribe, from Anglo-French, morsel
		Learn more about "bribe" and related topics at Britannica.com
		See a map of "bribe" in the Visual Thesaurus
	www.m-w.com /dictionary/bribe (71 words)

	'The Bribe Memo' and collapse of Stone & Webster - The Boston Globe
		In Houston we're getting an instructive inside look at just what happened -- and who is to blame -- in one of the most infamous corporate collapses of all time as a jury hears the mountain of evidence against Enron Corp.'s two former top executives, Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling.
		The problem, however, was that Stone and Webster was aware that the project's financing through the Export Import Bank included the $147 million bribe to the owner.
		READ ''THE BRIBE MEMO" The full text of the document is available at boston.com/business.
	www.boston.com /business/globe/articles/2006/03/15/the_bribe_memo_and_collapse_of_stone__webster (1471 words)

	bribe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		If the receiving noble considers the bribe, there is a 33% chance they will renounce loyalty to their current lord, and swear fealty to the bribing character.
		Characters who are successfully bribed will have loyalty contract-250 to the bribing character.
		Bribes will be refused by characters who have already switched lords during the month because of bribery.
	www.pbm.com /oly/rules/bribe.html (306 words)

	Kamusi: bribe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		bribe, pl bribes { Swahili: chichiri (or kijiri), pl chichiri (or vijiri) }
		bribe, pl bribes { Swahili: mrungura, pl mirungura }
		bribe, pl bribes { Swahili: mvugulio, pl mivugulio }
	research.yale.edu /cgi-bin/swahili/lookup.cgi?Word=bribe&EngP=1 (514 words)

	Bribery
		What is more, the very rule that the bribe taker sees as linking himself to the briber--the rule that one should act as one has promised to act--is a rule which the bribe taker violates in taking the bribe in the first place.
		The one who accepts a bribe in exchange for a favor is violating his or her contractual duty towards his principal.
		The receiver of the bribe does not inform her principal, on behalf of whom she is supposed to be acting.
	www.wku.edu /~jan.garrett/321/bribery.htm (1736 words)

	Indian, Chinese, Russian Multi-Nationals Most Likely to Bribe Foreign Officials \| Asian American News \| GoldSea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A survey of 30 of the world's leading exporting countries ranked those three countries at the bottom for effectiveness in preventing their companies from bribing when they do business abroad, with India as the worst offender.
		The survey's results found companies bribing more often in developing countries, where the means to combat corruption are weak.
		``Bribing companies are actively undermining the best efforts of governments in developing nations to improve governance, and thereby driving the vicious cycle of poverty,'' Labelle said.
	goldsea.com /Asiagate/610/04bribery.html (454 words)

	Final Fantasy X Bribe FAQ - IGN FAQs
		Bribe is the last ability on Rikku's part of the Sphere Grid, located at the bottom center of the grid map, directly to the left of the loop with all of Lulu's "-ra" spells.
		The exact cost to Bribe is twenty times a particular monster's max HP - if the monster can't kill you, it's certainly going to want to extort every last penny from you.
		Each bribe attempt stacks with previous attempts and the monster has a chance of leaving again, using the total amount of money given to it as the chance to leave.
	faqs.ign.com /articles/392/392019p1.html (1693 words)

	Haxial Bribe #8 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		I don't know what your status is on completing bribes, but I hoping my generous bribe will move me to the top of the list.
		I'll pay you a flat 250 bucks for the bribe and early registration fee for 1.0's of client and server (and hopefully the upgrades) when they come out.
		This is the biggest bribe so far and I think it definitely warrants dropping everything else for the time being in order to focus on this.
	www.haxial.com /bribe/bribe8.html (395 words)

	bribe \| English \| Dictionary & Translation by Babylon
		It may be any money, good, right in action, property, preferment, privilege, emolument, object of value, advantage, or any promise or undertaking to induce or influence the action, vote, or influence of a person in an official or public capacity.
		For the sake of distinction, that of the former, viz: the briber, might be properly denominated active bribery; while that of the latter, viz: the person bribed, might be called passive bribery.Bribery at elections for members of parliament has always been a crime at common law and punishable by indictment or information.
		To constitute the offence, it is not necessary that the person bribed should, in fact, vote as solicited to do or even that he should have a right to vote at all both are entirely immaterial.An attempt to bribe, though unsuccessful, has been holden to be criminal and the offender may be indicted.
	www.babylon.com /definition/bribe/English (315 words)

	Analyst Puts Average Bribe in Russia at Over $135,000 - NEWS - MOSNEWS.COM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Back in 2001, the average bribe was $10,200, but by 2005 that figure grew to $135,800, according to the findings of the Corruption in Russia: Dynamics and Perspectives” research report.
		90 percent of the bribes are paid to officials found in the executive branch of government, with only 10 percent left for the representative and judicial branches.
		Five or six years ago a bribe allowed one to solve the problem, nowadays it is more of a lottery,” Satarov said.
	www.mosnews.com /news/2005/07/20/bribesgrow.shtml (594 words)

	CD Baby: BRIBE THE GHOST: Identity
		With with himself on guitar, Andrew Milstead on lead, Jordan Leininger on bass and background vocals and Gunvalson, Bribe the Ghost was born.
		To us, Bribe the Ghost is a reflection on the way all people, and society as a whole, don't all necessarily face up to the ghosts in our lives; we just try to hide them or make them go away for a while."
		Along with the determinedly industrious Chris Wilson, Bribe the Ghost benefits from one Thomas Smouse, who is co-producer/engineer on Identity as well as a hard-working PR flak and an all-purpose, fire-dousing guardian angel.
	cdbaby.com /cd/bribeghost (776 words)

	When a Reward for Kids Becomes a Bribe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Bribe on the first count, but a positive reward on the second, says David Fassler, M.D., clinical associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Vermont and a member of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
		And bribes can establish a dangerous dynamic: You can unintentionally teach a child to withhold behaviors until a bribe is offered, says Dr. Fassler.
		But a reward definitely is not a bribe.
	www.sparks.org /healthyliving/familyhome/aug03familyhomerewardbribe.htm (696 words)

	It takes two to bribe - Haaretz - Israel News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The contractor is suspected in 1999 of bribing Trade and Industry Minister and then-Jerusalem mayor Ehud Olmert, by providing logistical help in that year's Likud primaries, in exchange for receiving Olmert's help in purchasing a Greek island that Appel planned to turn into a tourist resort.
		Appel also is suspected of bribing Prime Minister Ariel Sharon by employing his son, Gilad, and paying him hundreds of thousands of shekels, as well as trying to influence the premier, who was foreign minister in 1999, to help push forward the business initiative in Greece.
		Meanwhile, the present-giver intended to bribe the public servant and motivate him to favor the briber.
	www.haaretz.com /hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=330474&contrassID=2&subContrassID=4&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y (1024 words)

	A drug-company bribe? - By Timothy Noah - Slate Magazine
		It's no great surprise that the source of cash for the Medicare bribe would be drug companies, which had more to gain from the bill's passage than anyone else.
		Former representatives and senators who are lobbyists, though allowed on the House floor, are forbidden to lobby on the House floor, and according to political scientist Norman Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute, these privileged former legislators tend not to wander onto the floor at all during high-profile votes.
		The no-lobbyists rule is significant because most versions of Smith's story prior to his recantation suggest the bribe occurred on the House floor.
	www.slate.com /id/2092242 (925 words)

	Deputy PM named in bribe row - National - www.smh.com.au
		The political future of the Deputy Prime Minister, John Anderson, was under a cloud last night after he was named as the man who had offered the bribe of an diplomatic post to the independent MP Tony Windsor in exchange for him vacating his New England seat at the October federal election.
		Mr Anderson repeated the comments he made during the election campaign that he would not offer a bribe, did not do so and would not authorise anyone else to make such an offer.
		The allegation is the subject of a police investigation after a complaint laid by the Labor Party in September.
	www.smh.com.au /news/National/Deputy-PM-named-as-bribe-row-flares/2004/11/17/1100574540528.html (1092 words)

	bribe
		On one of the discussion groups one of the Qadiani activist from Germany, Chaudhary Shiraz recently commented about the rampant BRIBE in Pakistan and the insensitivity of Mullahs about it.
		What he was implying that they should be condemning such things rather than wasting their time about exposing the fraud of Mirza Ghulam and Ahmadiyya Movement.
		Bribe is that which is given or taken to violate the right of others.
	alhafeez.org /rashid/bribe.htm (407 words)

	bribe.html
		This bribe was for 1100 pieces of silver from five Philistine Lords, a large amount of money.
		WMX used the bribe effectively and the city accepted it as a payoff for them to change their previous decision.(Micah 3:11) Deuteronomy 16:19 is addressed to the ancient officials who made decisions collectively at the gate.
		Knowing that they are the world's worst lawbreakers, I believe that the activity of WMX of bribing governments and officials is standard operating procedure for them.
	www.stopwmx.org /bribe.html (774 words)

	Don't bribe kids - reward them for good behavior
		Is there ever a time when bribing your child is OK? In the short run, the answer is an overwhelming yes, if you follow these rules.
		Bribery teaches kids to placate other people, versus teaching children to do the right thing because it is the right thing to do.
		Bribery also teaches children to look for the end result of "what's in it for me?" Children who grow up being bribed rely on outside circumstances rather than on self-control and critical thinking.
	enquirer.com /editions/2003/08/01/tem_relate01formerpastor.html (545 words)

	Prosecutor: Bribe-givers to be blacklisted
		Provincial-level procuratorates will make bribery files available for public access by the end of the year and the system will be linked nationwide at the beginning of next year, the Procuratorial Daily reported yesterday.
		On the fllist will be individuals and units who have offered bribes from 1997 in such sectors as construction, finance, education, medical and government procurement.
		According to the Criminal Law, those offering or accepting bribes are subject to punishment: the maximum penalty for a bribe-taker is the death sentence, and a life term for people offering bribes.
	www.chinadaily.com.cn /english/doc/2005-11/03/content_490214.htm (352 words)

	bribe
		The children were given candy as a bribe to be good.
		They bribed the reporter to forget about what he had seen.
		The judge was too honest to be bribed.
	www.infoplease.com /dictionary/bribe (106 words)

	USATODAY.com - Dems want inquiry into reports of Medicare bribe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Such an offer could be interpreted as a bribe that violates federal law, Democrats and outside legal experts said.
		"Not only was this bribe offered to a member of Congress, it was offered on the floor of the House of Representatives by another member of Congress," McAuliffe wrote Ashcroft.
		He said his father was told "there's an opportunity for substantial support for your son" if he voted for the bill.
	www.usatoday.com /news/washington/2003-12-04-dem-inquiry-bribe_x.htm (876 words)

	BabyCenter \| Readers' Comments - Do you ever bribe your toddler?
		My trick with bribing is to make my daughter believe she is getting away with something.
		I've tried all sorts of bribes, but he still refuses to pose and THEN gets mad when he doesn't get to have what I offered.
		Those parents who say they don't may have a different definition for the word bribe then we do because unless you are a saint with no schedule or time constrants then you will use a bribe in needed times.
	www.babycenter.com /comments/5277?i=220 (1324 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Politics -- Former comrades angered by 'bribe menu'
		This guy just makes you almost want to vomit to hear that, knowing how he tried to represent himself as this virtuous guy who was so much morally superior to anyone who would question the war” in Iraq.
		Instead, he faulted federal prosecutors, saying that although they probably knew about the bribe menu long ago, they are now “eking out their most damaging evidence. . .
		The revelation about the bribe menu seemed to catch the capital city off guard, coming as it did when Congress was shutting down for the Washington's Birthday holiday recess.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/politics/20060222-9999-1n22duke.html (903 words)

	Bribe Haxial! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		If you would like to bribe Haxial, please contact Haxial Support and explain in detail what you want done and how much money (in US$) you are offering, and then you will receive a reply indicating whether or not your bribe has been accepted.
		Multiple people can pool their money to make a bribe, but it is the responsibility of the "leader" of the group to pay.
		The Bribes section is currently closed because Haxial is busy focusing on getting KDX 1.0 out, but it will reopen later.
	www.haxial.com /bribe (303 words)

	Report tells of Iraq's $15m bribe fund - World - theage.com.au
		IRAQ set aside $US15 million 10 years ago to bribe or otherwise influence then UN secretary-general Boutros Boutros-Ghali to shape the oil-for-food program to Saddam Hussein's liking, investigators have found.
		Iraqi officials gave millions of that in cash in the mid to late-1990s to middlemen who were supposed to bribe or influence Mr Boutros-Ghali, according to the findings of the Independent Inquiry Committee led by former US Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker.
		There was no evidence that Mr Boutros-Ghali, who left the United Nations in 1996 after a single term, received any of the money or knew about the scheme, the investigators said.
	www.theage.com.au /news/world/report-tells-of-iraqs-15m-bribe-fund/2005/09/08/1125772640503.html (390 words)

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	www.myspace.com /bribetheghost (763 words)

	Windsor defiant despite 'bribe' denials - National - www.smh.com.au
		Deputy PM met man at centre of bribe row
		Independent MP Tony Windsor today stood by his claim that Deputy Prime Minister John Anderson tried to bribe him, despite a key figure in the affair saying the allegation was without foundation.
		Mr Windsor used parliamentary privilege this week to claim that Mr Anderson and Nationals Senator Sandy Macdonald tried, through Tamworth businessman Greg Maguire, to bribe him not to recontest his seat at the October 9 election.
	www.smh.com.au /news/National/Windsor-defiant-despite-bribe-denials/2004/11/19/1100748188361.html (555 words)

	Soccerway.com · News · Bak alleges bribe offer
		The veteran full-back said he received a strange phone call before the match began in Brussels offering him 10,000 if he conceded a penalty, helping Belgium win the match.
		Bak told teammate Maciej Zurawski about the phone call, but the Celtic striker quickly tried to play down the incident, but the Belgian FA has asked that UEFA investigate the incident.
		Despite the alleged bribe offer, Bak did not accept and Poland won the match 1-0, sending them to third spot in their qualiying group.
	www.soccerway.com /news/2006/November/16/bak-alleges-bribe-offer (190 words)

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