Word: scandalizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Otherwise, it was a slow, quiet summer. For weeks, the top non-Sox story was the ongoing plagiarism scandal involving Boston University dean Joachim Maitre, whose commencement speech included 15 paragraphs of a local film critic's essay about declining societal standards. Big deal...
Meanwhile, Harvard had avoided the tag of "scandal" in its dealings with the government, conducting an independent audit of Harvard Medical School billing practices and volunteering to repay the government for $500,000 in questionable expenditures. That cooperative move took some bite out of the U.S. General Accounting Office...
...Replaced John Poindexter in January 1987 as Reagan's National Security Adviser during the Iran-contra scandal...
...generations, Americans have largely defined their country and, to some extent, themselves in terms of the cold war. From McCarthyism to backyard bomb shelters, from the arms race to the space race, from Alger Hiss to the Marine spy scandal -- whatever else might have changed, the cold war abided. Moreover, it all too often metastasized into an honest-to-goodness shooting war, as in Korea and Vietnam. Now, however, only the most troglodytic right- wingers refuse to acknowledge that a new era has dawned. Says former CIA Director Richard Helms: "Years ago, when I was at the agency, from time...
...When he returned, the brash youngster started organizing workers and getting in trouble. In the Little Steel Strike in Warren, Ohio, authorities charged him with using explosives, and in Minneapolis they arrested him for inciting a riot. In 1940 he was convicted of fraud and forgery in an election scandal and spent 90 days in jail...