Word: scandalized
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...When McGwire and Sosa were pursuing Maris's record in 1998, Maris Jr. appeared at games to celebrate both players. But that was before baseball's steroid scandal raised questions about their achievements...
...changed considerably. In 2005 a resolution was passed by the state senate in North Dakota, Maris's home state, to recognize Maris as baseball's single-season home run champ, and Democratic Sen. Byron Dorgan has sponsored a similar resolution in the U.S. Senate, citing the ongoing steroids scandal. "Some of us think [Maris's] home run record still stands," Dorgan said during Commerce Committee hearings last year on steroids and baseball, "and that is a sad comment on baseball." Appearing before the committee, Sosa denied using steroids, and McGwire refused to answer questions about steroid us (though...
...return of art works and artifacts from Western museums to the countries where they originally belonged - have lately been on the defensive, derided as cultural imperialists for arguing that art is better served (and can be more safely guarded) when it can be seen by millions. But a growing scandal over a theft of centuries-old artifacts from a small Turkish museum has surely made them feel vindicated...
...arrive on easily obtainable student visas before beginning to deal cocaine and heroin to the wealthy. In the capital, four cocaine busts have been made this year - after nine busts in the whole of 2005. But the number of arrests may soon grow in the wake of the Mahajan scandal...
...While scandal-watching in India can often seem like a national pastime, this recent, rather breathless coverage of the party drug scene conveys a naivete that is almost endearing. Journalists are reporting that heroin is usually snorted, and while it's strange that papers are printing cocaine's street price, what's stranger still is that their estimates are all over the place. One paper reported matter-of-factly that cocaine "makes one euphoric and enhances sexual prowess on consumption," and boasted that "one can dance all night long after consuming...