Word: scandalizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Back home in Cambridge, the police reported over 1000 incidents of violent crime last year. And in cities like Detroit and Washington, D.C., simple murder is old news unless there's a sex scandal or a psychopathic weirdo as a backdrop to the killing...
...long-sleeve shirt blaring BEST SEX I EVER HAD, HEADLESS BODY FOUND IN TOPLESS BAR or RUN DOWN LIKE A DOG? At stores like Bloomingdale's, Saks and Bullock's, as well as the Nicole Miller shop in Manhattan, such clothing is selling faster than an extra-edition sex scandal. And you can forget about wearing the news discreetly under your suit. The $55 silk boxer shorts, like most of the other items, are already sold out. In just one week, sales topped $100,000. Says Nicole Miller CEO Bud Konheim: "These designs are much hotter than we expected. Since...
...other half of citizenship: attachment to duties and obligations. We are seeing a public recoil from formal politics, from the active, reasoned exercise of citizenship. It comes because we don't trust anyone. It is part of the cafard the '80s induced: Wall Street robbery, the savings and loan scandal, the wholesale plunder of the economy, an orgy released by Reaganomics that went on for years with hardly a peep from Congress -- events whose numbers were so huge as to be beyond the comprehension of most people...
...helps that the U.S. General AccountingOffice (GAO) has not found too much to complainabout, at least in comparison to Stanford and MIT.But Harvard's spin doctors--who includespokesperson Peter Costa, Vice President andGeneral Counsel Daniel Steiner '54 andothers--showed insight months before this issuebecame a national scandal...
...Prime Minister called the arrest, the first of an incumbent Diet member since the Lockheed bribery scandal of the 1970s, "regrettable indeed." For Miyazawa, whose government recently suffered legislative setbacks, the case resurrects memories that he and his party would rather keep buried. Along with other leading officials, he resigned three years ago during a notorious bribery affair involving the Recruit information-services empire. Opposition parties plan to dissect the latest mess amid news reports of more ruling-party misdeeds...