Word: scandalizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...construction in 1989 with only 60% of the blueprint complete. Located in Tooele, Utah, home of the nation's largest chemical stockpile, the facility was built by EG&G Defense Materials Inc., under contract to the Army. But Utah residents are wary of the military after the atomic-testing scandal of the 1950s. "The firebricks blew up in the kiln at Johnston," says Steve Jones, a safety inspector who was fired by EG&G in 1994, after just three months on the job. "Then they built the kiln in Tooele using the same bricks." The Army contends that Jones...
Hyman is forward-looking, and has set the College's weakling student government on a path of meaningful convalescence. There has been a notable lack of scandal and bombast--in its stead, Hyman's administration has been characterized by a low-key, steady build-up of student confidence in and respect for what had been Harvard's most buffoonish comedy of ego and intrigue. Old memories--of offices being broken into, funds illegally transferred and blackmail documents melodramatically exposed at panel discussions--are starting to fade into the dim background buzz of history...
...public opinion turns against the Republicans who have been consumed with Whitewater, they are insisting that their investigation continue, because a smoking gun may yet be uncovered. From the start of the investigation, they have attempted to make analogies to Watergate, claiming that only protracted investigation uncovered that scandal. Hillary Clinton has been accused of being our generation's Richard Nixon. For example, the cover cartoon illustration of a recent issue of the Weekly Standard, a conservative magazine, portrayed the First Lady as Nixon...
...What Could Go Wrong? For one thing, scandal. The drip-drip-drip of revelations about Hillary and Whitewater could undermine Clinton's new era of good feeling. Senator Al D'Amato would like to keep his hearings rumbling through the fall. "I was glad to have the opportunity to tell the grand jury what I have been telling you," Mrs. Clinton said wearily, after testifying for more than four hours before a grand jury last week. It's still an eternity before next November...
...campaign funds from the Cali kingpins; two weeks later, he found himself in detention, under investigation by the Prosecutor General's office. Though Samper repeatedly declared his belief in Botero's innocence, Botero came to suspect that the President was planning to make him the scapegoat in the scandal. He reached the breaking point on Jan. 21, when Samper failed to appear for a scheduled dinner at the barracks, sending in his place Interior Minister Horacio Serpa. Botero became so angry that he threw a glass across the room. "I told Serpa," he said later, "that the situation was leading...