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Only our choice of bribe is different: industrial trade deficits, advanced semiconductors, and the transfer of capital and intellectual property.

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Mr. Modi would do well to heed complaints by ordinary people in the world’s largest democracy and curb rapacious officials’ power to extract bribes.

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They also referred to bribes taken by a former Reform leader.

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It was dirty, and patients had to bribe security officers and nurses to see a doctor, said the protester, who spoke on condition of anonymity as he feared reprisals.

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A wine buyer for a major California grocery chain allegedly accepted lavish vacations, luxury watches, prepaid gift cards and other bribes in exchange for carrying certain wines, according to charges filed by prosecutors.

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