Word: scandalizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Michael S. Dukakis yesterday compared George Bush's campaign to the Watergate scandal of Richard Nixon, saying "truth was the first casualty" in both instances. Bush received new police endorsements along with the badge of a slain officer in New York...
...staying out of the market. Nearly 16,000 securities-industry workers have lost their jobs, while profits have plunged at such firms as Merrill Lynch and Paine Webber. The largest investment houses have survived the down cycle, with one exception: E.F. Hutton, already suffering from a check-kiting scandal before the crash, nearly collapsed afterward and was absorbed last December by Shearson Lehman...
...hypothetical" question was right. He simply lacked the presence of mind and the knowledge to squelch that hoary journalistic dog. What did the reporters have in mind -- a President dying of a lingering illness, downed by a terrorist missile in Air Force One over the Mediterranean, resigning because of scandal? A Vice President's response would be different in each situation...
...occupied in the Heritage Grand Hotel. Along the adjoining Main Street shopping arcade, stale popcorn was piled unsold in a vendor's cart, and saleswomen without customers knitted listlessly in a crafts shop. Cranes, brought in to construct Jim Bakker's fantasies, stood eerily idle, as they have since scandal struck 19 months...
...what's a Jewish entrepreneur going to do with a 500-acre Christian theme park, a born-again retirement village and North America's biggest all- Christian cable TV network (sent to 13 million homes, 2 million fewer than before the scandal)? "I have made no decision whatsoever" he told a press conference but said the project, with 1,700 undeveloped acres, is a good investment with excellent "breakup value." The local church that Bakker founded is not involved...