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It allowed the nationalists to keep power, despite budget cuts and revelations that for decades they had taken rake-offs on public contracts.
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Critics claimed he had taken rake-offs on a contract to buy fighter jets and on a deal with Bettino Craxi, a corrupt Italian Socialist, to build an urban railway.
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A jack is provided through which the modulator can be pulsed by an external source. By means of external modulation, a code of 1 to 5 pulses may be used. Data rake-offs are provided for potentiometer, synchro, and digital information in all three coordinates. The azimuth and elevation digital data is derived from optical-type analog-to-digital encoders.
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Back in Calabria he claimed a large share of the rake-offs from huge and lucrative public works contracts. At the end of the 1980s, 600 billion lire (US$444 million) were allocated for the modernization of the city of Reggio Calabria. Ligato demanded a 10 percent bribe on the whole project, jeopardizing agreements already reached among a so-called "business committee" of local politicians and 'Ndrangheta groups.Paoli, Mafia Brotherhoods, p.
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Duvalier employed intimidation, repression, and patronage to supplant the old mulatto elites with a new elite of his own making. Corruption—in the form of government rake-offs of industries, bribery, extortion of domestic businesses, and stolen government funds—enriched the dictator's closest supporters. Most of them held sufficient power to intimidate the members of the old elite, who were gradually co-opted or eliminated. Many educated professionals fled Haiti for New York City, Miami, Montreal, Paris and several French-speaking African countries, exacerbating an already serious lack of doctors and teachers.
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