Spaniards have long suspected that there is graft in their town halls, whichever party runs them.
January sees the first report of an investigation into allegations of huge graft in the build-up to the Commonwealth games.
Parlour often provided the graft in the heart of midfield at Highbury but nevertheless scored a spectacular goal against Chelsea in the 2002 FA Cup Final.
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In a move that signals the Obama administration may be getting more serious about cleaning up graft in Afghanistan, the U.S. government on Friday targeted prominent Afghan bankers who have long been suspected of ties to corruption and the Taliban, imposing financial sanctions against them and a money exchange business because they facilitated billions of dollars in transactions for two drug organizations.
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But after a 2007 amnesty on graft prosecutions in Pakistan, Islamabad told the Swiss court it no longer wanted to cooperate.
Adding Biogen Idec would graft labs in California and Massachusetts to this just-created construct, or else shift them into a parallel research and development operation Pfizer is just starting to build from close to scratch out of San Francisco.
Depending on its origin, a graft can differ in size, thickness and how fast it generates tissue.
They focus on the graft that unfolds in local precincts, where, the theory goes, ordinary Afghans feel the impact most.
In its latest progress report on Poland's fitness to join the European Union, which it hopes to do next year, the European Commission scolded Warsaw for not doing enough to tackle graft, especially in the police and border-guard services.
In a fashion later described as bordering on the surreal, Karzai denied that graft was a serious issue in Afghanistan and changed the subject.
Graft is hardly new in India: the Bofors scandal brought down the government in 1989.
The patient received her new face in one graft from a donor cadaver.
The branch, which is called Suishinkai, specialised in construction graft on public contracts.
What was the problem in voting for a less than perfect bill and make a beginning in combating graft?
The graft has been tested in the laboratory, and the Imperial team are now beginning trials of the "Swirlgraft" in patients in conjunction with experts in other parts of Europe.
Blatant graft corrodes voters' support in the rich world for debt relief and aid.
All that effort, all that graft, all that success in agenda-setting terms and nothing to show for it.
He performed one of the first nerve-graft procedures while at Baylor in 1997.
He denied claims by an acquaintance that Mr Royle told him he had been involved in a "graft", or theft, which had "gone a bit naughty".
As other countries, such as Britain, bring in tough anti-graft laws like America's, the trend will continue.
The Supreme Court in 2009 overturned the graft amnesty and ordered Mr. Gilani's government to write to Swiss authorities to reopen the investigation.
The headlines belong to companies that buy into US and European markets, but the hard graft is going into creating champions in high growth markets, instead.
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But they are also a reflection of the hard graft of public-health workers in many countries, who have persuaded millions of people to modify or abandon risky behaviour, such as having unprotected sex, as they have also created the medical infrastructure needed to distribute anti-retroviral drugs that can keep symptoms at bay in those who do become infected.
Dubernard, who has performed hand transplants in the past, said he believed the woman would consider the graft part of her own face when feeling is completely restored in that area.
Zardari was tried for alleged graft when Nawaz Sharif became prime minister in 1990 but was acquitted on all counts.
Mr. Zardari spent 11 years in detention on charges of graft, many of them during Mr. Musharraf's government, but has never been formally convicted of corruption.
To get close to profitability, Price is also betting on Neutralase, a drug that would be used in coronary-artery bypass graft operations--more commonly referred to as open-heart surgery.
"Our one-year patient and graft survival rates are among the best in the nation and were a dominant reason in Mr. Jobs's choice of transplant centers, " the statement read.
In recent years, the King has spoken out about the dangers of graft, environmental degradation, over-reliance on foreign investment and even the chronically gridlocked traffic in Bangkok--all issues affecting the everyday life of Thai citizens that their governments have been slow to address.
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