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More than 40 years ago, Lee Kuan Yew (36) what was a poor, decaying colony into a shining, rich and modem city, all the time (37) by hostile powers. With his brilliant intellect and powers of perception, he is one of the world’s most blunt and (38) statesmen. One of the remarkable successes of Lee Kuan Yew’s (39) of Singapore was his making Singapore the least corrupt nation in Asia. He says, "They must be (40) a wage equal with what men of their ability and integrity are earning for managing a big corporation or (41) legal or other professional practice. They have to manage a Singapore economy that (42) an annual growth rate of eight to nine percent in the last two decades, giving its citizens an (43) income that in 1995 was the ninth highest in the world." (44) "We had established a climate of opinion which looked upon corruption in public office as a threat to society." (45) He said, "The higher they are, the bigger their homes and more numerous their wives or secret girlfriends, all wearing clothes appropriate to the power and position of their men." His government made the rule that if a person accused of corruption was found to be living beyond his means or had property his income could not explain, (46) .