Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...endangered species, but news like this keeps them from becoming extinct. Political Analyst Ben Wattenberg (The Real America), among the hardiest of the species, argues that Americans are "a tough-minded, wise, shrewd people. They've coped with assassination, an awful Viet Nam War, city riots, political scandal and all the while made an enormous amount of material and attitudinal progress, i.e., in the women's field and civil rights. Remember that this is still the most emulated country in the world. There are very few nations who are saying they would really like to model themselves after...
Bungei-Shunju's feat would have been a coup in any country. But in Japan, where the press seldom mentions the private peccadillos of government leaders, it was an unprecedented display of hara (guts). The nation's last major political scandal, the 1966 "black mist" influence-peddling affair, went unreported in the press until the matter came before the Diet. This time, Bungei-Shunju 's disclosures were ignored for nearly a fortnight. It was only when foreign reporters grilled Tanaka about the article that big Japanese dailies began to print disapproving editorials. Since then, not one publication...
...removed from his government post and came to Harvard in the summer of 1970, in the midst of Vietnamese press and congressional demands that he testify concerning his "responsibility" for the bank scandal...
...bank scandal was "the biggest scandal in the Saigon government up to that time." Long said. "Because it hit so close to the Theiu regime, the only way they could defuse criticism was to remove Hao and send him out of the country," he said...
...personal idiosyncrasy. Fresh from its impeachment triumph, the committee was plainly determined to outdo its Senate counterpart, the Rules Committee, in dissecting the Rockefeller persona and finding out what makes it tick. Rockefeller, on the other hand, was no less concerned with clearing his name of any hint of scandal or conflict of interest. It was a rigorous confrontation of intellect and ideology in which, in a way, both sides emerged as winners...