Word: scandalizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this age of scandal, government officials more often quit in shame than resign over principle. So Washington took notice last week when Marshall Harris, a 32-year-old desk officer at the State Department, publicly left his post after reaching "level-10 frustration" at the Clinton Administration's erratic Bosnia policy. "I thought about resigning last month when Secretary Christopher said the U.S. was doing all it could," he says. "But the real kicker came when I found out we were putting heavy pressure on the Muslims to come to an agreement in Geneva, and using the threat of withholding...
...comedy from 1969 that has very little to do with today's society. The story is about a psychiatrist named Dr. Prentice who tries to seduce the woman he is interviewing for the job of secretary. When his wife walks in on them, he lies to prevent a scandal. The first lie leads to more lies, which mushroom into insanity as a hotel bellboy, a government psychiatrist and a police sergeant enter the scene. Characters reverse gender and assume disguises in an attempt to create humor...
...cartoon depictions of him wearing a pirate's black eye patch. Though he reigned as one of Italy's premier financial magicians during the 1980s, he had become only the latest of more than 2,500 business leaders and politicians to be implicated in Italy's omnivorous corruption scandal. But having lost his empire, his power and now his honor, the thought of a prison cell was apparently too much for him. Lying on a bed in his 18th century Milan palazzo two weeks ago, just hours before he would have been arrested, Gardini pressed a pistol to his temple...
...surprise that Bennett has appeared at the side of Representative Dan Rostenkowski, the powerful chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, who has been implicated in the congressional post office stamps-for-cash scandal. "The chairman decided he'd better get a fighter," explains a Rostenkowski friend. "Bennett is a tough trial lawyer who's not going to make a deal." Rostenkowski -- a major force in reshaping President Clinton's budget -- could be indicted on charges far exceeding the 29-penny- ante stamp scam, including misuse of campaign funds. After days of stonewalling, the chairman called a press conference...
...York judge dismissed four of eight criminal charges against Robert Altman in connection with the B.C.C.I. bank scandal. The most serious charge, bribery, was among those dismissed, making it difficult for prosecutors to prove Altman's role in the fraud...