Word: scandalize
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Clarification: Milk Deluxe, pictured in a Feb. 9 Milestones item about the China tainted-milk scandal, has been cleared of melamine contamination by authorities in Hong Kong and China, and the people sentenced had no connection with Milk Deluxe. We regret any misunderstanding...
...microexpression, rendered aptly in the examples of a graduate student subliminally flipping off her professor during a particularly harsh performance evaluation. The author then moves to an evaluation of polygraphs as instruments of interrogation, and finally assesses more public cases of lie detection in history, like the Watergate Scandal. Unlike Roth’s character in the television series, however, Ekman comes across as less confident in his methods, or at least very cautious about putting them to use. Being responsible is one thing, but as a result of this cautiousness, Ekman often sounds vague, ambiguous, and worst...
Four weeks to begin an investigation into a massive corporate scandal is a long delay even by the standards of India's sluggish judicial system. That's nearly how long it took for the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) to get permission from the country's highest court to question the men who were running Satyam Computer Services, India's embattled information technology giant, over the company's $1 billion accounting fraud...
...wanting to acquire a minimum 15% stake in a company must make an open offer to all shareholders based on a 26-week average share price. SEBI wants to waive this requirement to enable more realistic pricing of Satyam's shares, which plunged by more than 70% after the scandal broke and now trade at about $1.27 a share. Satyam's government-appointed board are discussing buyout options this week, but a sale cannot be completed until its accounts are restated, a process that could take several months. The company said this week it secured $133 million in working capital...
...last thing the CIA needs right now is another scandal, let alone...