Word: scandalizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Supreme Court, which last ruled on sexual harassment in 1986, did not need stacks of legal documents to convince them that it was time for a fresh look at the issue. The subject has dominated the news over the past two years, from the Tailhook scandal that rocked the Navy to beleaguered Senator Robert Packwood, who is accused of harassing 26 women, to the case of Justice Clarence Thomas, who came close to being kept off the court in 1991 because of Anita Hill's accusations...
Flush from victory, veteran Republican campaign consultant Ed Rollins inadvertently caused a scandal for newly elected New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman. Rollins boasted to reporters that the campaign had distributed some $500,000 to Democratic workers in black neighborhoods and to black ministers in an effort to hold down the black vote in the election. Whitman insisted the payments "never happened," and Rollins retracted his statements. At week's end federal and state prosecutors had launched criminal investigations, and the Democratic Party was suing to invalidate Whitman's victory...
...world that needs a Washington angle." The queries pour in from the New York office all week long: What is the Administration's point of view on Peru? How much foreign aid do we give El Salvador? Did Italy pressure the U.S. to curtail prosecution of the B.N.L. banking scandal? "I seldom know the answer immediately," says McAllister. "But I know whom to call. My computer Rolodex has . . . let me see . . . 857 entries...
After the rematch of mayoral candidates, he was there, comforting the surprise loser. Next, a boxing rematch--and he was there, comforting the surprise loser's wife. Now, as scandal threatens to provoke a rematch election in New Jersey, once again: Jesse...
...thing I like to compare it to is theWatergate scandal," he says. I edge forward. Nowthis is getting interesting. "That's a goodexample of basically goodA-6Crimson File Photo...