Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...even if oil profits were high, that would not reveal a scandal. It would simply reveal the rational, just, efficient, workings of the market...
...therefore seems that the notion that oil companies are making outrageous profits is the result of twisted statistics. Even if profits were high that would not reveal anything scandalous or immoral. It seems that the only scandal oil profits reveal is the way they have been grossly misrepresented. The only real scandal is the great number of public figures who are willing to bend the truth to support their ideological contentions...
...healthy result of the Watergate scandal has been a reappraisal of what the proper constitutional balance between the Executive and Legislative branches of Government should be. Part of the Ervin Committee's report, which is due to be released soon, will concern redressing the current balance, which has shifted too far in favor of the presidency. Moving ahead of the committee, New York Republican Senator Jacob K. Javits, in a speech last week before the liberal Republican Ripon Society, recommended seven measures that would permit Congress to "reestablish itself as a truly coordinate branch of the United States Government...
...tennis finalist in 1965, as a "playboy," not sérieux enough to be President. Married three times, in a Catholic country where divorce is still a political handicap, he has become saddled with the nicknames "Beau Jacques"and "Charmant Delmas." Moreover, he still has a slight scent of scandal about him. He was dismissed by Pompidou in 1972 partly because it was found he had used loopholes to avoid paying taxes...
...could never happen in England, British politicians confided at the height of the Watergate revelations in the U.S. Even if such a scandal did occur, editors added wryly, the British press would never uncover it. Both law and tradition conspire against serious, sustained investigative reporting in Britain. Coverage of any subject before a civil or criminal judge, for instance, is restricted to reporting what occurs in open court. If the targets of an expose bring libel actions against a newspaper-Fleet Street calls them "gagging writs"-all discussion of the case is normally suspended, at least until the suits...