Word: imbroglio
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Duke's opponent, three-time Democratic Governor Edwards, 64, is fighting to capture the post he lost four years ago after being indicted in a racketeering imbroglio. But no matter who wins, the whole state stands to lose. "It's clear that people are not looking forward to the next 10 years," says New Orleans pollster Edward Renwick. "They're looking to the past. But it's a past that no longer exists...
...current imbroglio over heresy and money can be traced back to 1983, when the church hired John H. Hoagland Jr. to run its media operations. One of Hoagland's first acts was to curtail spending on Eddy's daily newspaper, the money-losing Christian Science Monitor. He began to pour tens of millions of dollars into World Monitor magazine, a nightly cable-TV news program, a Boston UHF station and, especially, a 24-hour cable service, Monitor Channel, founded...
...University of California has a docket of similar suits long enough to keep the courts busy for years. Ten university attorneys, in fact, work full time solely on cases involving employees. In one recent imbroglio, a U.C. Santa Cruz employee, citing emotional stress, sued a colleague and the university after the colleague wrote a message on official stationery labeling him a racist. The plaintiff lost his case in two courts and plans to appeal to the state supreme court. He has meanwhile retired on a disability pension...
...scholarship imbroglio so visibly unbalanced Bush -- and so glaringly spotlighted the Administration's inept handling of civil rights -- that it all but eclipsed Alexander's generally well-received nomination. The drama hurtled Administration officials into a rushed series of consultations. Result: a policy flip that flopped spectacularly. Civil rights leaders blasted the White House for threatening to slam expensive college doors in the faces of under- represented minority students. Conservative critics lambasted the decision for its failure to reject unambiguously racial preferences of any kind...
Kaifu was forced into the imbroglio by the crisis in the Persian Gulf. After 1 1/2 months of indecisive debate, the government belatedly offered $4 billion in cash to support the frontline states and the multinational forces arrayed against Iraq. Yet many Japanese realized that simply handing out money was an insufficient gesture at a time when other nations were sending soldiers to risk their lives in the Saudi desert. In a newspaper interview, former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, showing his occasional affinity for tasteless similes, declared, "If we were to try to settle everything with money, we would...