Word: scandalize
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Tusk's line on the missiles was a particularly sharp departure from his predecessor, but not the only one. The previous government, led by Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski, whose identical twin Lech is still Polish President, was so plagued by in-fighting, scandal and sour relations with Poland's neighbors that Tusk's victory in last October's election can be partly ascribed to the relatively competent impression he makes. But Tusk's success also represents Poland's growing acceptance of free-market ideas. In 1993, an economically liberal forerunner to the party that Tusk co-founded in 2001 drew...
...policy or making news. That's why Bush has preferred loyal, stay-the-course yes-men like HUD secretary Alphonso Jackson, a Texas crony who fiddled while the housing market burned, but knew enough to stay out of the spotlight until he got embroiled in an alleged political corruption scandal and recently announced his resignation. Meanwhile, the Cabinet itself, which used to serve as a presidential advisory board, no longer serves as much of anything. There hasn't been a truly important Cabinet meeting since Bill Clinton gathered his aides to admit his lapses with Monica Lewinsky; the meetings...
...year election. The White House party loses an average of 29 seats in the House and 5 in the Senate. We lost 30 in the House and 6 in the Senate, and we lost them by very, very close margins. And that’s with us suffering scandals galore. We lost 15 seats that are directly or indirectly connected to scandal. We are in the middle of an unpopular war, and we had those scandals, yet it was an average election. That says something about the durability of the Republican message. THC: Why do you think people criticize...
...scandal made it difficult to get business in some countries...
What, if anything, does this American attachment mean, either about him or about how he sees America's place in the world? It does not necessarily translate into uncritical support for the Bush Administration's foreign policies or into willingness to overlook the U.S. Catholic Church's sexual-abuse scandal. But an examination of his lifetime of visiting and writing about the U.S. helps provide insight into what drives the Pope: his intellectual curiosity, his search for national models that can accommodate Catholicism as the vibrant minority in a position that he feels may be its next world role...