Word: scandalizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Limbaugh picks his spots. He praises Ronald Reagan ("Ronaldus Magnus") for everything he likes about the '80s and blames the Democratic Congress for everything he hates. Snail darters get more play on his show than the recession. The chief miscreants in the B.C.C.I. scandal are not the Justice Department honchos who quashed any investigation for two years but Democrats like Jimmy Carter and Clark Clifford. Big Government is bad, except when it provides plenty of guns and bombs; big corporations are good, except when they knuckle under to liberal consumer groups. "You simply cannot have the public at large telling...
Just as the financial community had feared, the scandal set off by Salomon Brothers' efforts to corner the market for U.S. Treasury securities spread across much of Wall Street last week. On Capitol Hill, Richard Breeden, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, said that "a distressingly large" number of firms had routinely inflated orders for bonds sold by government-sponsored agencies like the Federal National Mortgage Association. The bogus orders apparently enabled firms to purchase extra bonds and resell them at a hefty profit...
...boss, Clair George, the CIA's former chief of covert operations. In a federal courtroom last week George pleaded innocent to the 10-count felony indictment, which alleges that he lied to three congressional committees and to the grand jury that Walsh convened to probe the Iran-contra scandal. If convicted on all counts, George faces up to 50 years in prison...
...times the slimy characters in this production seem too sympathetic one need only read of the latest insider trading scandal on Wall Street to understand just how many people are seduced by Garfinkel's lifestyle. In his final appeal to the shareholders of the company which he has run for several decades, Jorgenson implores them not to let America become a "nation that makes nothing but hamburgers, creates nothing but lawyers, and produces nothing but shareholders." After watching Other People's Money, one gets the chilling impression that this speech comes a little too late...
Last spring and into the summer, Harvard was trying to downplay the magnitude of the indirect cost scandal which affected it and so many other schools. Although Harvard admitted that it had been using federal grants that were supposed to have been supporting research for things such as the Harvard shuttle bus, there were no abuses like those at Stanford, where federal monies were used for fruitwood commodes and presidential yachts. Still, the scandal must have been big enough to have caused at least a minor shakeup at the Medical School, as evidenced by this recent ad in the Harvard...