Word: amuck
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...official who presided over the White House staff while the ill-conceived policy was unfolding. Neither Attorney General Edwin Meese nor former Chief of Staff Don Regan did much to shake the devastating portrait that has emerged from the hearings of a secret foreign- policy apparatus run amuck and key officials more concerned with pulling together a convincing alibi than getting to the bottom of the tangled tale...
...Veblen could explain the eagerness with which moneymen like Boesky vied with one another in acquiring the luxurious trappings of a baronial life-style. But the insider-trading scandal, a grotesque perversion of the Reagan free-market ethos, was perhaps the inevitable consequence of the gospel of wealth run amuck...
Recently, however, Israel's vaunted state-security apparatus seems to have gone amuck. Shin Bet has been under a cloud for some time, but especially since last summer, when its director and three aides were forced to resign amid allegations of complicity in the murders of two captured Arab bus hijackers. In October a technician at Israel's top-secret nuclear complex at Dimona, Mordechai Vanunu, revealed the purported details of the country's nuclear weapons program, never officially acknowledged, in London's Sunday Times. He was later reportedly lured to Rome by a female MOSSAD agent and kidnaped...
This is the first "death" sentence levied since the 1985 N.C.A.A. reforms, undertaken when educators finally panicked at the familiar spectacle of alumni boosters running amuck. Corrupt football practices are not unique to Dallas or the Southwest Conference, though the climate seems perfect there all the year. Three of the nine S.W.C. schools will be on probation this year...
...main question facing the board is how a small department, with headquarters in the White House and operating with a budget of only $4 million, could run so dangerously amuck. The answer seems to be that it offered everything Reagan wanted as an instrument of policy. The NSC is protected by Executive privilege, immune to congressional oversight, secretive and small enough to be virtually leakproof. Though the NSC has enjoyed high influence in previous Administrations, the agency has rarely attained the degree of autonomy that it has under Ronald Reagan. But critics charge that the NSC has been playing outside...