Word: affair
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...week Christine Toomey of the Sunday Times of London wailed, "America has flung itself again into one of the spasms of passionate moral debate that nations more tolerant of human frailty find so hard to understand." In Switzerland the Basler Zeitung concluded that "the most American aspect of the affair" was that "behind the thin dam of wordy morality, puritanical shyness and 'ethics' swirls a sea of corruption, madness and wickedness...
...short, some Europeans saw the Thomas affair as a sex scandal. Hence all the scorn for American "prudery" and "puritanism...
...panel had heard allegations that as deputy director of the agency under William Casey, Gates ignored intelligence reports that did not conform to the political aims of the Reagan Administration. Also, some witnesses claimed that he may have misled Congress about his knowledge of the Iran-contra affair, a charge that Gates denied. Although some Senators shared Democrat Howard Metzenbaum's skepticism about the nominee's "uncanny ability to forget key events," those doubts were not enough to sink him. The full Senate, seeking to avoid another bruising fight over a presidential appointment, is expected to confirm Gates...
...says, but women have sexual power. "If I or a woman does not get a job because a female competitor displays more enticing cleavage, then what are we victims of?" he asks. "If I or a woman does not get a promotion because a female competitor has an affair with our boss, then what are we victims of?" In his view, men and women have an equal incentive to abuse whatever power they have. "For every executive who chases an executive around the desk," he declares, "there is a secretary who dreams of marrying an executive and not having...
...Congress, the Thomas affair strips away all pretension to high purpose and supports the growing call for term limitation. California, Colorado and Oklahoma have already enacted term-limitation laws for state offices, and similar propositions will probably be on the ballot in 17 other states soon. The first legal challenge was resolved last week, when the California Supreme Court held that the right to seek office can be abridged in order to guard against "an entrenched, dynastic legislative bureaucracy...