Word: scalded
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...took a YouTube video to scald the conscience of officials at Fort Bragg, where soldiers returned from 15 months in Afghanistan to a barracks festooned with filth, paint peeling in pages off the walls. "Soldiers should never have to live in such squalor," said Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who saw the video. "Things happen too slowly." But even if the system worked perfectly, it would still take billions of dollars to meet the need...
...seen as contemporary." The U.S. president of KFC resigned in September. To make matters worse, Pamela Anderson, the ex-Baywatch TV actress, recently joined a boycott of KFC led by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. The animal-rights group says KFC's suppliers drug and scald the chickens, and sear off their beaks with hot blades before slaughtering them in an inhumane manner. "If people knew how KFC treats chickens, they'd never eat another drumstick," Anderson wrote in an Oct. 15 letter to operators of Canadian KFC outlets. (KFC says it deals only with suppliers that maintain...