Word: scandalize
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...European airplane manufacturer is finally set to start delivering its chronically overdue super-jumbo, the A380. Instead, the company has hit turbulence again. This time, however, it's not production delays and boardroom infighting, it's news that market regulatory officials are investigating a potentially massive insider trading scandal at EADS, Airbus's parent. According to documents cited in French press accounts, as many as 1,200 people may wind up targeted by legal action, including some of the loftiest members of France's business and political elite...
...Should investigators be able to build a case to prosecute in the EADS scandal, lawyer Maréchal says they face the daunting task of proving executives had inside knowledge that motivated their stock deals at the time of transaction. Maréchal says that has often been difficult to do under French law, explaining why there have thus far only been two major insider trading convictions: cases involving canning group Pechiney, and bank Société Général in the late 1980s. Maréchal says sentencing in those cases suggests anyone eventually condemned...
...unfortunate for Hillary Clinton to be forever linked to Bill's distasteful legacy of immorality and scandal. The weight of that baggage might keep her from rising to the presidency. Joseph M. Kosanovic Camp Hill...
After calling the Rutgers women’s basketball team “nappy-headed hos,” shock jock Don Imus quickly found himself embroiled in scandal. Despite Imus’ profuse apology, Reverend Al Sharpton didn’t seem keen on hearing any explanation. Appearing on everything from Larry King Live to Fox News, Sharpton mounted his crusade against Imus’ language. Suddenly, just as the nation was trying to digest and debate the event, we were bombarded by a din of nonsense from a man who enjoys the sound of his own voice...
...Indeed, beyond the scandal of the moment, Pentecostalism has produced a culture of superstar preachers whose lives are always at risk of being turned into something close to secular entertainment...