Word: scandalizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ames scandal catches Yeltsin at a particularly fragile time in his ) presidency. Faced with continued opposition from ultranationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky and his conservative and communist followers in parliament, Yeltsin has been forced to retreat from the grand promises of reform he made to Clinton in January. Last week the parliament voted overwhelmingly to grant amnesty to Ruslan Khasbulatov and Alexander Rutskoi, two leaders of the failed 1993 uprising against Yeltsin's government, as well as to the men who plotted the aborted 1991 coup against Mikhail Gorbachev. Though Yeltsin's aides insisted that the parliament had overstepped its authority, hard...
...nearly 45 years. The dispute illustrates how fragile relations still remain between the cold-war rivals -- and how simple it would be for those relations to devolve into an equally cold peace. To the extent that it has dramatically underscored the delicacy of the new relationship, the Ames scandal could probably not have come at a worse time for the Clinton Administration: the furor has galvanized opposition to the President's unstinting support for Russian reform at a moment when there are disturbing signs that the bulwark behind that reform, Boris Yeltsin, may be buckling under pressure from hard-line...
Admiral Frank B. Kelso II, Chief of Naval Operations, announced that he would retire two months early, in April, in exchange for an official tribute from the Pentagon meant to clear him of wrongdoing in the Tailhook scandal. Earlier this month, a Navy judge dismissed the last three Navy Tailhook cases on the grounds that they had been tainted by Kelso's efforts to conceal his knowledge of the affair...
...Tailhook sexual-assault scandal drove him into early retirement from the Navy, Admiral Frank Kelso last week sought to overhaul his image. The Navy's top officer claimed that during his nearly four years at the helm, he had helped rid the service of its tolerance for abusive attitudes toward women. If anyone treats women as did the drunken, groping aviators at the Tailhook convention 2 1/2 years ago, Kelso blustered at a press conference, "they're not going to be in this man's Navy...
...easy, one might wonder how anyone can resist. To some extent, fear keeps students honest. I have had professors specifically state that my assignments in Computer Science classes will be examined for unusual duplication of other students' answers. I don't find this surprising in light of the cheating scandal in an introductory computer science class that rocked MIT a few years ago. If caught, punishment is harsh and the blemish irreparable...