Steiffel reveals in his interview that Neeley was working for him as a bagman, executing all the bribes ( Baksheesh ) that are required of an American energy firm to operate in the Middle East.
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Durant said that what refugees run into everywhere, whether in Somalia, Cambodia, or Kosovo, is " the four B's _ bureaucracy, baksheesh, bribery, and bugs ."
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Behind the modern church and through a gate that a caretaker will unlock for a bit of " baksheesh " _ Arabic for a tip _ is an old stone staircase leading into the river.
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Problems with the Iranian authorities are solved in time-honored fashion . " Baksheesh, " Sadani said emphatically, using the Persian word for tip or bribe while making a circular motion with his hand over his head.
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Count on a big scene at the Libyan desert oasis of Siwa ( will Hollywood baksheesh get the crew into Khadafy-land ? ) where the priests at the oracle of Ammon declared young Alex to be a living Pharaoh.
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As the election campaign winds up this week in Egypt, electioneering by " baksheesh " _ tipping or small-scale bribery _ has become so rampant that Muslim religious authorities have felt called upon to publicly condemn it.
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Besides, in a country where guards will look the other way for a little baksheesh, or bribe, while tourists take prohibited flash photographs inside the tombs, getting access to fenced-in areas would not be too difficult.
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Eventually you may discover that a little baksheesh is necessary to turn on the lights inside Egyptian tombs, to ensure that a mailed parcel is not tampered with or to help a Tanzania border guard understand that your visa really is in order.
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Still, it seemed odd that this talk of odious baksheesh from Asia should be so vigorously denounced when there was so little alarm about the staggering sums that private American interests had pumped into the campaign to buy a piece of the government.
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But Bajammal said that if any Yemenis are found to have been involved, they may have simply been corrupt bureaucrats who provided logistical help in exchange for " a little baksheesh, " _ or payoffs _ not out of ideology.
