101.   From officials using government planes for private trips to cops shaking down motorists, corruption is endemic in Venezuela, analysts and ordinary people agree.

102.   He bristled at the suggestion that corruption was a major issue.

103.   High-level corruption is epidemic in Ukraine, but serious investigations of corruption are rare and arrests like this one are almost unheard of without good political cause.

104.   High-level corruption has been endemic in Mexico for decades, they say.

105.   Human rights are in short supply, dictators abound and corruption is pervasive.

106.   In an interview, U.S. Customs Service Commissioner George Weise denied there is systemic corruption among service employees along the U.S.-Mexico border.

107.   In China, on the other hand, corruption is a widespread problem, and the decisions of Communist leaders outrank the legal codes.

108.   In some cases, the corruption can be so severe, the hard disk is rendered unusable.

109.   In some countries, corruption is so widespread that it has become the normal way of doing business and the main reason people enter public service.

110.   Indeed, at the civil servant level, corruption is really an ad hoc safety net for the poor.