11.   A decade later, students outraged at government corruption launched hunger strikes in Tiananmen Square that galvanized millions nationwide.

12.   A recent editorial in the influential Bogota newspaper El Tiempo suggested that government corruption may be causing more damage to Colombia than the fighting.

13.   A triumphant Hamid Karzai proclaimed on Friday that he had won a mandate from the Afghan people to clean up government corruption and to wage war against terrorists.

14.   But it has given Menem, whose popularity is flagging because of rising crime, high unemployment and persistent reports of government corruption, a chance to rehabilitate himself.

15.   But newspapers in Tehran have openly blamed government corruption and bureaucratic bungling for perpetuating the hyperinflation.

16.   Civilian morale is declining because government corruption, currency revolutions and renegade police shootings are increasing.

17.   For its part, Mexico has been moving against its narco-traffickers and related government corruption.

18.   For years, Helms has loomed as a kind of ogre, routinely scolding Mexico for everything from illegal immigration to government corruption to drug trafficking.

19.   Government corruption by private interests has been another favored topic, in the Credit Mobilier and Teapot Dome scandals in particular.

20.   Government corruption by private interests has been another favored topic.