Word: affair
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...blower who spotted the fraud aroused public suspicion about scientific integrity. Worse, from the viewpoint of scientists, it brought about an investigation by Michigan Democrat John Dingell's House subcommittee and fears of more federal supervision of science. By the time Baltimore finally apologized for his role in the affair, the damage to science's image had been done...
...more dangerous is the way demagogues have been able to dismiss as no more than "racism" the workings of the U.S. justice system in cases like the notorious 1987 Tawana Brawley affair. The fragile mechanisms of equity that Americans have struggled hard to establish -- and must still struggle hard to improve -- are among the things most threatened by the sweeping fiats of victimology...
...every aspiring candidate who has his picture taken with his wife puts his sexual history into play. The public looked at Hart's egregious pattern of conduct and, understandably, had qualms about what it revealed about the man who would be President. Hart, after all, flaunted his affairs and taunted the press to expose him. But the specter of the press pursuing the issue of whether Robb got a massage or something more from the former Miss Virginia, as if there were a Pulitzer at stake, makes the public wonder why the reporters aren't off sorting out the savings...
...announced that a panel of private citizens would now monitor covert funds, and said he had an "open mind" about a proposed interim government to rule impartially during negotiations on a postapartheid constitution. A.N.C. officials said the moves were insufficient but hinted at a willingness to put the Inkatha affair behind them...
...sheer wackiness, the most intriguing watchdog publication is the Repap Media Guide, a mammoth annual affair that rates publications and journalists as if they were low-fat frozen yogurts. (Repap is the name of the Canadian paper company that underwrites the project.) The guide is compiled by former Wall Street Journal editorial writer Jude Wanniski, who helped convince Ronald Reagan of the merits of supply-side economics and has spent a good deal of time ever since trying to persuade the public that the deficits thus created do not really matter...