Word: affairs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mitchell's owlish demeanor and mild manner mask a wrought-iron will. Democrats were impressed by his tough televised responses to Ronald Reagan on the Iran-contra scandal and his unblinking stare-down of Oliver North during hearings on that sordid affair. They were also swayed by the $12.4 million he raised as director of the 1986 Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, when the party recaptured control of the Senate...
...previous week Assistant Coach Doug Jackson publicly alleged that McElreavy had been involved in an extramarital affair and had problems with alcohol abuse. These problems, Jackson said, undermined the head coach's authority and damaged team morale...
Peres cited the reaction of Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze, who personally thanked the chief of an Israeli consular delegation in Moscow, Aryeh Levine, for Israel's help in the affair...
...former head of the National Institute of Mental Health, Frazier has not commented on the affair. Many of his colleagues say that Frazier has been a leader in his field...
Finally, Bush tends to lose concentration at times when he cannot be convinced his attention is required. Aides say that trait explains such "abnormalities" as his shockingly inert role in the Iran-contra affair. It also accounts, they say, for the marked improvement in his speaking style between the middle primaries, when Bush was not fully involved in political theater, and the postconvention period, when he appreciated that the stakes were high...