Word: scandalizer
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...corruption scandal intensifies, Roh tells a national TV audience "I have no confidence in doing my job under this situation" Seeking to reaffirm public support, he proposes an unusual?and, critics say, unconstitutional?national referendum on his leadership, vowing to resign if he fares poorly...
...every Monday at 4:30 p.m. to discuss everything from Iraq to North Korea, scrubbing campaign positions against Kerry's past Senate votes and clearing them for speechwriters and spokespeople. His high-profile defection has exposed Beers to attacks on his record, including his performance related to the 1997 scandal over a Chinese intelligence operation to buy influence in several congressional election campaigns. The FBI informed Beers, then Bill Clinton's senior intelligence assistant at the National Security Council, of the Chinese efforts, and he opted not to tell National Security Adviser Anthony Lake. Later, Republican critics questioned the Clinton...
...Management Shell Game What if they gave a business scandal and no one came? Royal Dutch/Shell plunged deeper into crisis last week as new details emerged about how the Anglo-Dutch oil giant overstated its reserves. But for the moment investors don't seem to care. Shell's stock barely budged after a report in the New York Times alleged that the newly appointed chairman, Jeroen van der Veer, was one of several executives who may have known about the reserves shortage two years before the company cut its official estimate by 20% in January. Even a deepening investigation...
...while the public was consumed with dissecting the intricacies of her personality, personal attacks on the real corporate criminals have been scarce at best. Kenneth Lay is greatly responsible for Enron’s collapse—a corporate scandal that caused 5,000 people to lose their jobs and the lifetime savings of some 20,000 retirees to dwindle as Enron’s stock value shrank to almost nothing. Yet the American public has not criticized him for being too bossy...
...culture that still feels slightly uncomfortable with the idea of an assertive, powerful woman, Martha Stewart was a perfect scapegoat. This is not to imply that what Stewart did was excusable—it certainly is not. But the public reaction to her case suggests that this scandal was much more a product of who she was than what she did. Her boldness was a bit too threatening and it is certainly part of the reason that the public was all too eager to see this ambitious female icon crumble...