Word: scandal
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Last week Hall was at the epicenter of a scandal involving precisely what he has never had: money. Almost from the day he took office, the Internal Revenue Service has been trying-without success-to uncover possibly unreported income from political contributions. More recently, a local grand jury presented indictments that charge key aides with trading state favors for political donations. Oklahoma's attorney general and a federal grand jury last week began to investigate those charges. The probes may eventually focus on Hall himself...
...Dwyer is another old dynamo, a civil-rights and peace activist from way back who'd been losing elections regularly for 20 years before November. O'Dwyer has not run into major scandal yet, but Beame started running into problems right away...
...report was coldly scientific, its source unassailably objective, its grave import unmistakably clear: at least as late as last October, an effort to conceal evidence in the Watergate scandal was still in operation in the innermost reaches of Richard Nixon's White House...
...visible and painful. More than ever before in the tangled and sordid revelations of the Watergate scandal, the tape report pinpointed the near certainty of wrongdoing within the White House and perilously close to the Oval Office. As more than one sympathetic Republican Congressman pointed out, the burden of proof has now been shifted to the President to demonstrate his innocence in the court of public opinion. On July 23 Richard Nixon had assured Senator Sam Ervin in a letter: "The tapes, which have been under my sole personal control, will remain so." While under that control, the Watergate evidence...
...responsibility in policing recruiting rules." But what can be done? Paterno suggests that the N.C.A.A. should follow the "vigilant example of the N.F.L." The N.F.L. has a staff of 28 professional investigators checking suspicious practices, and has succeeded in keeping pro football relatively scandal-free...