Word: scandalize
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...thank God for my addiction. It made me understand my shortcomings." - on his prescription drug scandal. The New York Times Magazine, July...
...Rush Limbaugh was singled out for prosecution because of who he is. We believe the state attorney's office is applying a double standard." - Roy Black, Limbaugh's attorney during the prescription drug scandal, to the Associated Press...
...will take extreme measures against prominent violators. In 2007 the country executed Zheng Xiaoyu, the former head of its State Food and Drug Administration, for accepting $850,000 in bribes from drug companies. In January, a Chinese court sentenced two people to death in the melamine milk-poisoning scandal. But China's health ministry acknowledged over the weekend that the food-safety situation remains grim...
...another type of government subsidy, will also get a delayed tune-up under the budget proposal. In addition to spending more on education, Obama’s budget proposes to make student loans available directly from the federal government—rather than government-sponsored private intermediaries. Considering the scandal that has riddled this $85-billion-a-year industry, it makes sense for an uninterested lender like the federal government to help out college students...
...dishonest to pretend that inherent judgments regarding the age and gender of a man’s sexual partner are not at play in the Adams scandal. The story of Sam Adams—that duplicitous homosexual!—indicates something we all already knew: sometimes, politicians lie, whether they’re gay, straight, male or female. End of story. People who insist that this alone is a shocking fact—independent of Adams’s sexuality—are woefully self-deceived...