Word: scandalizer
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...Islamic revolution in that country. Then came the seizure of the American embassy in Iran and the hostage crisis that helped defeat Jimmy Carter. After that, in the 1980s, the CIA ran a not-very-secret war backing the contras in Nicaragua, which led to the Iran-contra scandal that tarnished the presidency of Ronald Reagan...
Remember Harvey Pitt, the deposed Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chairman? The onetime lawyer for big accounting firms resigned last November following criticism that his relationship with former clients was keeping him from cracking down on corporate scandal. President Bush appointed a successor, former brokerage and insurance executive William Donaldson. But with Donaldson's nomination not yet approved by the Senate, Pitt is still at the helm--and wielding more power than ever...
...might find this ridiculous. To us, however, it is a disaster, since it is likely to damage “access,” seen by many here to be the real issue in higher education policy. To explain the depth of feeling on the subject: it is a scandal to end all scandals if someone is accepted into Oxford following a parental donation, whereas I hear that over there you can deal with the idea of letting in a couple of sub-standard students if it means a few extra libraries for everyone else. In the ongoing debate...
CHILE Graft Scandal Grows Former Public Works Minister Carlos Cruz, a longtime friend of President Ricardo Lagos, was charged with bribe taking in a growing scandal that has undermined the image of the country as Latin America's least corrupt. Five current ruling-party lawmakers are also facing graft charges, but Lagos denied the scandal constituted a crisis for his center-left government...
...absence of any real assignments, she could only bear witness to all that she had wrought, looking on as Enron auctioned off everything down to the sign at its headquarters (price: $44,000) and as the firm's esteemed accountants, Arthur Andersen, went down in their own wave of scandal...