Word: scandalizes
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...workers. Because the GSA is preparing to replace that system for the first time since 1963, a deal worth up to a whopping $25 billion for the companies that will build the new network, Soni was destined to play a significant role. Instead he is embroiled in a byzantine scandal that is paralyzing the giant phone project. According to investigators for the GSA and a Senate committee, Soni leaked secret bidding information in a mysterious pattern that may take probers months or years to untangle...
...request came in response to a well-publicized scandal at the Kennedy School, when Dean Graham T. Allison '62 approved a draft agreement that would have granted "officer of the University" status to a Texas couple in exchange for a $500,000 donation. In 1985, the same couple were made lecturers in psychology months after they gave $150,000 to the Erik Erikson Center, an interdisciplinary research center that is part of Harvard-affiliated Cambridge Hospital...
Murdoch arrived in New York by way of London, already schooled in scandal. In Britain he owns the backstairs-gossip weekly News of the World, with the largest circulation of any English-language paper in the world, and the lurid London Sun, which pictures a topless young woman on Page 3 every day. After snubbing Murdoch for years, the British establishment seven years ago had to send for him to keep one of its most prestigious papers, the Times of London, from going under. At some cost to its independence, character and authority, he succeeded. He did so by overcoming...
Scenes from a Marriage. They have endured scandal and relentless scrutiny. But after 20 days of campaigning, almost all of them side by side, the question now is: Can Gary and Lee Hart survive this election without driving each other insane? Lee often interrupts her husband's interviews with rambling elaborations of his answers, causing the testy candidate to cut her off. While he was chatting with a group of locals in a New Hampshire diner recently, she bombarded him with questions about what he wanted for breakfast. "Anything," Gary said. "Porridge or doughnuts?" she asked. "Anything, babe," he replied...
According to George Bush, the true nature of the Iran-contra scandal was only revealed to him on Dec. 20, 1986. That Saturday morning, nearly a month after Edwin Meese had rocked the nation by disclosing the diversion of Iranian arms- sale profits to the contras, Minnesota Senator David Durenberger, then chairman of the Intelligence Committee, drove to the Vice President's home. "Not until that briefing," Bush says, "did I fully appreciate how the initiative was actually implemented...