Word: imbroglio
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...resignation from his Cabinet post following the disclosure that his girlfriend had received a $1,200 scholarship from a foundation run by Tyson Foods, the Arkansas poultry firm with political ties to the Clintons. Though the woman eventually returned the money, the episode was the latest Tyson gift imbroglio involving Espy, whose conduct is being investigated by an independent counsel. Espy said he left to overcome "the challenge to my good name...
...muddied by the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (B.C.C.I.) scandal, denies any wrongdoing or mismanagement. "Mrs. Harriman didn't profit one dime," says Clifford. "I didn't either, and neither did Paul Warnke. Paul and I feel very badly that we have gotten drawn into a family imbroglio...
Periodization is a sport which pundits fancy playing. But perhaps now it is time to periodize the self-aggrandizing pundits of television news. The initial feeding frenzy of the O.J. Simpson "case" having subsided for the moment, our collective decency can dare to re-assert itself. The O.J. Simpson imbroglio marks the final evaporation of that always-gossamer line between (what has been charitably called) "television news" and televisual entertainment...
...term bill imbroglio points to a fundamental failure of representation on the Undergraduate Council. In regard to both the term bill increase and calendar reform, former council Chair Michael P. Beys has observed that the council is a representative body and hence has no need to refer anything to student referendum...
Within months of the Ovitz imbroglio, Eszterhas made headlines again when Basic Instinct drew protests from gay and lesbian groups for its depiction of a bisexual, icepick-wielding wild woman. The movie nevertheless grossed more than $350 million worldwide, and since then Eszterhas has sold various ideas that could end up making him more than $10 million over the next two years, among them a $3.4 million script about mobster John Gotti. In addition, he has written a TV commercial for Chanel No. 5 that was directed by Roman Polanski, and he is mulling over a possible move into theater...