Word: scandalizer
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...tailwind. Corporate earnings last quarter beat expectations for the first time in years. The Dow is up 10% in six weeks. Consumer confidence has risen. Bush's position is that while people have cause for concern, things aren't so bad, considering. "We've been racked with inflation, scandal, war and emergency," he said. "Yet we're still growing." All of that is true - OK, except for the part about inflation, which is at a four-decade low. Such economic misspeak underscores the difficulty Bush may have preaching on a subject where even experts can be incomprehensible...
...wife, "she was usually the one who picked up the telephone when it rang, so she spoke to Savimbi several times when he called my home," he replied. Revelations such as these have become daily fare at a trial that has opened a window onto the biggest scandal of the Fifth Republic. Verwaerde is one of 37 defendants in the case; others include the former chief executive of Elf, several top company officials and a cast of other luminaries including a senior spy (although no one who is still politically active). They are charged with embezzling about $435 million from...
...leadership's desire for full disclosure may be too little, too late. China's mishandling of the health scandal has exposed the contradiction between the country's ongoing global economic integration and the authoritarian government's reluctance to allow the free flow of information. Complicating the problem is the fact that the government is operationally in the hands of tens of thousands of bureaucrats whose objective is often hiding bad news from their bosses, even at the expense of public health and the country's reputation. "The leadership wants the country to be an economic power without changing the political...
...failed even to begin the final and central panel, which was to be of the Sermon on the Mount, before his death in 1925. It has since been argued that World War I shattered the faith in progress at the heart of his idea, and that the synagogue scandal destroyed his interest in the project. In 1890, Sargent had shunted aside his portraiture in order to relocate himself in the mural tradition, which was seen at the time as more dignified...
...conspicuous blank space at center remains, a pale token of the scandal that revisited Sargent half a lifetime after “Madame...