Word: scandalizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...passage of this initiative may herald new, more intense and perhaps more successful efforts to rollback affirmative action nationwide. However, the recent Texaco scandal demonstrates some of the reasons why these policies were enacted and why they are still necessary. Texaco was rocked last week by the release of secretly recorded tapes of top management mocking black employees and conspiring to destroy documents that could prove that the company's promotion practices were discriminatory. One Texaco executive sneered that "all the black jellybeans seem to be glued to the bottom...
...problem--later. Fortunately for Clinton, Dole had already blocked campaign-finance reform and stuffed his pockets. (Ever hear of the sugar-growing Cuban immigrant contributor or the $6 million fine for a Republican with a money-laundering operation in Hong Kong?) So only Perot could benefit from the scandal...
...selling of favors has become so blatant by candidates at all levels and in both parties that the latest pay-to-play scandal looked for a while as if it would just go away, especially if the White House continued to ignore it energetically enough. But last week even the cynics had trouble keeping up. White House logs showed that former Democratic fund raiser John Huang visited dozens of times in the past year, a level of access Warren Christopher might envy. And Huang wasn't just taking the tour. He dropped in on the President...
Whether anyone broke the law is not clear; but it almost doesn't matter in Washington, where the most outrageous acts are often the ones permitted by law. And so the momentum grows to rewrite the very rules that were born out of the last campaign-finance scandal, 24 years ago. Senators John McCain and Russell Feingold announced last week they planned to reintroduce their bill in the next Congress. But even if it does pass, the law may not be able to close one of the biggest loopholes in the system--the one reinforced last June by the Supreme...
Henry Cisneros has been plagued by a scandal involving payoffs to a mistress of his. Who better to take his post than Dick Morris, another philanderer who has certainly wandered in the political wilderness for long enough...