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By Barry Wood
Washington
15 May 2007
 





World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz addresses the media at the European Council headquarters in Brussels, 02 May 2007


World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz addresses the media at the European Council headquarters in Brussels, 02 May 2007



Paul Wolfowitz, a scholar and former number two at the U.S. Defense 1 Department, is expected to learn this week whether he will retain his position as president of the World Bank, the world's biggest development institution.  Wolfowitz has been ensnared in a controversy 2 involving his role in arranging a generous pay and promotion 4 package for his female companion, a bank employee. VOA's Barry Wood has more.


When Paul Wolfowitz arrived at the World Bank two years ago he made fighting third world corruption 5 his battle cry. Now he is fighting a different kind of battle. 


Colin Bradford follows the World Bank at the Brookings Institution, a Washington research organization. "I mean it is just totally inconsistent to advocate one thing for other countries to do and then in terms of your own personal behavior feather your own bed, take care of your own people and so on, in the way that he did. It is blatant 6 cronyism," he says.


Ironically, Wolfowitz became involved in finding a new position for his companion, Shaha Riza, to avoid any appearance of conflict of interest.


"I made a mistake for which I am sorry," Wolfowitz said in a public apology.


The bank's 24-member executive board has reportedly concluded that in arranging a new job for Riza, Wolfowitz violated bank procedures. But Gene 3 Rotberg, who served 19 years as World Bank treasurer 7 and senior vice-president, says Wolfowitz's problem only minimally 8 involves his female companion.


"I suspect that the main reason is rather straight forward,” said Rotberg. “It is Iraq. It is his failure even now to admit that he was wrong, that he made a mistake and that he caused great damage."


Many of the bank's over 5,000 professional staff say Wolfowitz's effectiveness in leading the bank has been irreparably damaged. Gene Rotberg agrees.


"Because if the countries say your effectiveness is damaged, if the staff say your effectiveness is damaged, then by definition you are damaged."


By tradition Europe chooses the head of the International Monetary 9 Fund and the United States the president of the World Bank. President Bush has been standing 10 firm for Wolfowitz. "My position is that he ought to stay," said the president.


Other world leaders have been silent. But several Africans have voiced support for Wolfowitz. Antoinette Sayeh is Liberia's finance minister. "He has been absolutely supportive, responsive, there for us, making advocacy that is absolutely essential."


Wolfowitz said last month that he will respect the decision of the bank's executive board. "I didn't hide anything that I did and, as I said, I am prepared to accept any remedies that the board wants to propose."




n.防御,保卫;[pl.]防务工事;辩护,答辩
  • The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
  • The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。
n.争论,辩论,争吵
  • That is a fact beyond controversy.那是一个无可争论的事实。
  • We ran the risk of becoming the butt of every controversy.我们要冒使自己在所有的纷争中都成为众矢之的的风险。
n.遗传因子,基因
  • A single gene may have many effects.单一基因可能具有很多种效应。
  • The targeting of gene therapy has been paid close attention.其中基因治疗的靶向性是值得密切关注的问题之一。
n.提升,晋级;促销,宣传
  • The teacher conferred with the principal about Dick's promotion.教师与校长商谈了迪克的升级问题。
  • The clerk was given a promotion and an increase in salary.那个职员升了级,加了薪。
n.腐败,堕落,贪污
  • The people asked the government to hit out against corruption and theft.人民要求政府严惩贪污盗窃。
  • The old man reviled against corruption.那老人痛斥了贪污舞弊。
adj.厚颜无耻的;显眼的;炫耀的
  • I cannot believe that so blatant a comedy can hoodwink anybody.我无法相信这么显眼的一出喜剧能够欺骗谁。
  • His treatment of his secretary was a blatant example of managerial arrogance.他管理的傲慢作风在他对待秘书的态度上表露无遗。
n.司库,财务主管
  • Mr. Smith was succeeded by Mrs.Jones as treasurer.琼斯夫人继史密斯先生任会计。
  • The treasurer was arrested for trying to manipulate the company's financial records.财务主管由于试图窜改公司财政帐目而被拘留。
最低限度地,最低程度地
  • Food spoilage problems occur with minimally processed, concentrated frozen citrus products. 食品的变质也发生在轻微加工的、浓缩冷冻的柑橘制品中。
  • So, minimally, they are responsible for such actions and omissions. 所以,至少来说,他们要对这样的行为和忽略负责。
adj.货币的,钱的;通货的;金融的;财政的
  • The monetary system of some countries used to be based on gold.过去有些国家的货币制度是金本位制的。
  • Education in the wilderness is not a matter of monetary means.荒凉地区的教育不是钱财问题。
n.持续,地位;adj.永久的,不动的,直立的,不流动的
  • After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
  • They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。
学英语单词
Adoption Credit
ammonia leaching process
aquell
autocatalytic plating
be oneself
bipedalism, bipedality
Black Tai
bone sampling
borillia
brightfields
cacia formosana
canalis nervi hypoglossi
co-payments
come to someone's knowledge
corticotrophinoma
cost composition
crystallographic planes
DDoS attack
diehl
double data rate random access memory
downtroddenness
Dutch consolation
electronic chronometric tachometer
epidemic curve
fibrinolytic phase
flyboat
Forest Ranch
game mode
gelatin capsule
george towns
gift rope
gum ... up
holbein the elders
hypoelastic theory
kooser
Launglon Bok Is.
LDIF
LEDT
line functional staff and committee
LMCL
look who it is
losyukov
Lumumbists
many-one function table
maxim criterion
message queue size attribute
minesweepings
moh's (hardness) scale
multi purpose space
multipath translation
multiported
multitudinism
murray harbour
Mwana-Goi
nanosurfaces
Navy Tactical Data System
Novell DOS
Novoyamskoye
oil pressure relief valve cap
overskipping
paleostriatal
pictorial pattern recognition
pin pointing of event
play sth down
playback helper
pleosorus
Poa bomiensis
positive inotropic
potential geothermal
prairie voles
prefigurements
Qazvīn, Ostān-e
Qulbān Layyah
ranchero
repair tolerance of composite
road fund licence
RONR
santa carolina
scientifical method
semichaotic
sensitizing
shelter porosity
simple path
southern states
squeamer
streamliners
tappit
three-stars
top hung window
trikkala
tripartisanship
uniquely reversible transformation
unmalignant
ventilator dash drain
vetturino
vice-president
void on its face
what hath God wrought
wikstrosin
wind-direction
Yongduam
Zoolobelin