I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The MAN who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own IMPORTANCE; the bribe once ACCEPTED, he BECOMES the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman.
Read MoreCorporate AMERICA was hurling offers at her. Thinking even BIGGER, WANTING even more, she had dreams of starting a Martha Stewart magazine and starring in her own regularly scheduled Martha Stewart television show. Martha saw herself as Betty Crocker, Julia Child, Miss Manners, Emily Post, and Rupert Murdoch all rolled into one juicy pie.
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