Word: scandalized
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Making of a Scandal Disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff was not "The Man Who Bought Washington," as your headline said [Jan. 16]. No one can raise enough money to do that. In my 23 years of staff work in the U.S. House of Representatives, I never knew of a member who could be bought. But there were always a few around who could be rented for a time. There was a simple test in the offices where I worked: if something offered to us could also be given to the average person-a pencil, calendar, ballpoint pen-we could accept...
...though his son could face a fine). Politically, maybe. Thaksin and his party were re-elected a year ago in a landslide victory. But his administration has since been on the defensive. Ethnic violence in the country's south continues unabated, opposition rallies are getting bigger, and a corruption scandal involving Bangkok's new airport refuses to go away. The Shin controversy adds to the growing perception that Thaksin's aura of invincibility has dissipated...
...Reilly is a veteran of local and state politics. He served as district attorney of Middlesex County, of which Cambridge is the seat. And in nearly two terms as state attorney general, he has gained a reputation for aggressively investigating the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston in the priest abuse scandal...
...invented nylon, became known as well for napalm. Chernobyl and Three Mile Island soured Americans on nuclear power. Shuttle crashes and a defective Hubble telescope made NASA look inept. Substances from DDT to PCBs to ozone-eating chlorofluorocarbons proved more dangerous than anyone realized. Drug disasters like the thalidomide scandal made some people nervous about the unintended consequences of new drug treatments. It's in that context of skepticism toward science that some reasonable questions have been raised lately about genetically modified foods and the scope of human embryonic work...
...that Sharon's unilateral withdrawal from Gaza was a peace initiative need to think again. Yes, he was pragmatic and confronted extremist Jewish settlers; however, he did not demonstrate enough of the goodwill needed to win over the Palestinians. Saleh A. Mubarak Seffner, Florida, U.S. The Making of a Scandal Disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff was not "The Man Who Bought Washington," as your headline said [Jan. 16]. No one can raise enough money to do that. In my 23 years of staff work in the U.S. House of Representatives, I never knew of a member who could be bought...