Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...television season gave NBC its worst average in more than a decade. Johnny Carson, the brightest star in the insomniac firmament, was keeping network nabobs awake at night wondering whether he would indeed quit the Tonight Show before his contract runs out in April 1981. An embezzlement scandal was boiling, affiliate stations were restless and gossip was rampant. Parent Company RCA laid it all on the bottom line at its annual meeting last Tuesday. Referring to "the very low ratings of NBC programs over the past month to month and a half," RCA President and Chief Executive Edgar H. Griffiths...
...prevent the rise of another Nazi Germany, solemnly declared last week that Great Britain had failed a basic test of human rights. Free expression, ruled the 20-judge European Court of Human Rights, had been denied by a longstanding English law that stifled the press and allowed a national scandal to go virtually unreported for a decade...
...scandal started in 1958 when Distillers Co., a huge British conglomerate known best for selling Scotch and gin, heavily advertised and sold a dangerous tranquilizer, Thalidomide, without adequately testing its effect on pregnant women. Before Distillers finally pulled the drug off the market, in 1961, some 450 tragically deformed babies were born in England, with flippers instead of arms and legs, or no limbs...
...witnesses from the Environmental Protection Agency claimed that they were unable to control toxic substances because they could not hire enough staff. HEW lamented that it could not correct abuse and error because of missing personnel in its newly created Inspector General's office. What reason did the scandal-ridden General Services Administration give for not speeding up its investigations? Because of Leach, there was a paucity of gumshoes...
Looking back on Watergate, Weicker said that the key issues of the scandal were the misuse of government and the refusal of Congress to admit its duty to watch the executive, problems which remain unsolved today...