Word: scandalizer
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...when he feuded with Washington in an auto-sales dispute. As Prime Minister from January 1996 to July 1998, he launched financial reforms modeled on London's "Big Bang" deregulation and defused a crisis over U.S. bases in Okinawa. An expert swordsman, he quit politics last year after a scandal involving donations to his party...
...other market is as cutthroat or has devoured so many players so relentlessly. Some, like J Sainsbury, bailed out after years of fruitless effort; others, like the French hypermarket chain Carrefour, lasted a nanosecond. Ahold, a Dutch company that owns the chain Stop & Shop, was bruised by an accounting scandal. Delhaize, the Belgian owner of Food Lion, holds on grimly as Wal-Mart makes chopped meat of the industry's profit margins...
...Formerly a defender with Juventus, Pessotto took up management duties in May in a bid to restore morale at the club amid corruption allegations. Juventus is among 30 defendants in a match-fixing trial that began in Rome last week; Pessotto's name has not been linked with the scandal...
...scandal highlighted the patchwork system that currently oversees the few labs conducting cutting-edge research on human embryonic stem cells. With no rules to regulate the field in the U.S., most labs here abide by regulations created by their own institution - while others overseas have to walk the line between the requirements of their own institutes and national laws that have been passed to govern certain parts of the field. (In South Korea, for example, it is now illegal to pay women to donate eggs...
...there any evidence that detaining and questioning those prisoners has protected the lives of Americans at all? What acute danger did 15-year-old Omar Khadr pose that warranted his detention with adults? If there is evidence, then put him on trial; otherwise, release him! It is a scandal and just unbelievable that the detainees, who may not be terrorists, do not get a trial, have no rights and have no prospect of the situation changing. How can the world just sit there and watch this happen? Hermann Hacker Weinstadt, Germany