Word: scandalizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This project-at once the biggest public work of all history and the source of many a state's worst corruption scandal-undertakes to tie together every city of 50,000 or more in the U.S. When finished, it will total only 41,000 miles of the nation's 3,600,000 miles of road, but will carry more than 20% of all traffic. It is a bit less than half complete, and to travel it now is to see the ideal when one is on some freshly built stretch with not a car in sight...
...might also add: "But be careful of the wife you pick." A 65-year-old widowed Reb, or teacher, and 50 times a grandfather, Blau has been forced to surrender leadership of Jerusalem's ultra-Orthodox sect known as the Neturei Karta (Guardians of the City) for the scandal and sin of marrying shy, devout Ruth Ben-David, 45, who is not only a divorced woman but a convert from Catholicism as well...
...those few people who still think art prizes mean more than pumpkin pie awards at a county fair were hardly satisfied. Rio's O Globo labeled Burri's latest "the mere decorative futility of burnt holes in transparent plastic." Correio da Manha simply called the prizes "a scandal." Surely exaggerated, but the overall impact of the São Paulo Bienal was like that of most conventions-fatigue and confusion...
Sign & Fly. The sleuths, alas, could not protect American Express against one of the biggest business frauds of all time-the Great Salad-Oil Scandal. As a result, the company today is preoccupied with a problem of its own: satisfying the creditors of bankrupt American Express Warehousing, Ltd., a minor subsidiary that was conned into issuing warehouse receipts for the nonexistent salad oil of Commodities Speculator Anthony De Angelis, who is now appealing his recent 20-year jail sentence. Although American Express is not legally responsible for some $100 million in claims on its subsidiary, it has offered creditors...
...scandal and financial burden might have been the downfall of a lesser company, but Amexco has proved that it can thrive despite adversity. Stung into greater efforts by the salad-oil scandal, it used imaginative promotion to boost the volume of its traveler's checks to about $2.5 billion last year, 16% higher than in 1963. Careful weeding of unreliable credit card holders and such innovations as the "Sign & Fly" program, which enables air travelers to fly on credit, lifted the American Express credit card operation out of the red (it lost $10 million between...