Allegations that the shareholder vote that approved this plan had been rigged, rejected by an initial court hearing, added a layer of grubbiness.

电讯盈科股东批准了该计划，关于股东投票受到非法操纵的指控，给这一事件蒙了一层卑鄙的色彩。法院在最初的聆讯中驳回了上述指控。

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Neither is it obvious that political grubbiness is increasing.

ECONOMIST: How corrupt are Britain's politicians?

Mr Bartley loathed him not only for his tax increases, not only for his gigantic folly of a health-care reform, but more than anything for the Arkansas grubbiness that came in with him.

ECONOMIST: Robert Bartley