Word: scandalize
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Rodriguez and her school also encountered hair-raising setbacks. Though the Taliban had fled, fundamentalists threatened to destroy what they viewed as a school for scandal. Some of her students were beaten by their husbands. Water and electricity were elusive. Money dwindled. The Afghan government finally evicted the school, socked it with punitive taxes and seized its equipment. Meanwhile, bombs exploded on the street outside and neighbors were kidnapped. The book ends with the school shuttered, the students dispersed and Rodriguez unsure of ever reopening...
...that it takes a scandal to wake up a society, and more so that we in academia know so little of how the current loan scandals came about. The current economic facts of student loans in the United States, quite to the contrary of common opinion, are not a necessity for students, but rather, are a necessity for academic institutions...
Programs such as the Federal Perkins Loan, Stafford Loan, Federal Family Education Loan, and Ford Direct Student Loan allow the federal government to “fund” education without providing any real money. As the recent student loan scandal has proven, private lenders have taken advantage of this situation to do what business does—namely, make money...
...that all the company's divisions are profitable again for the first time in years. Dieter Scheitor, the IG Metall union representative on Siemens' supervisory board who gave Kleinfeld a shove, says what matters most is whether all the bad news is out now. "Experience teaches us that the scandal probably has not reached its final act yet," he says...
...congressional majority may burden Democrats with some perceived responsibility for the country's allegedly parlous state. But the presidency and the President will still tend to dominate the news and be held accountable--and the Bush Administration is proving particularly adept at providing ever fresh instances of scandal, pseudo scandal and incompetence to remind people they're in charge...