Word: scandalizes
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...expose him. But the specter of the press pursuing the issue of whether Robb got a massage or something more from the former Miss Virginia, as if there were a Pulitzer at stake, makes the public wonder why the reporters aren't off sorting out the savings and loan scandal. Who among the busybodies can know what really happens behind a closed door, inside a marriage or in the human heart, or what it means? Uncovering an affair a public official may have had tells us that he's not perfect. But not much more...
...like the leaving of it. Last week the Stanford University president took a step that has become all too rare in modern American life: he resigned with grace and dignity under pressure. His departure, effective at the end of the coming academic year, is the outgrowth of the festering scandal in which the university has been accused of overbilling the Federal Government as much as $200 million for research expenses during the 1980s. But there was no smoking gun, no dramatic new revelation, no public ultimatum to prompt his surprise abdication after 11 years in office. Instead, as he explained...
...step down when the good name of their company becomes besmirched. But the American style is to gut it out stubbornly, blame overzealous subordinates or no one in particular ("Mistakes were made") and equate resignation with personal culpability. Kennedy, to be sure, had become the personification of the Stanford scandal; the university's aggressive billing techniques had included calculating as research overhead such expenditures as the cost of sheets, flowers and antiques for the presidential residence. No one had accused Kennedy of personal gain or even knowledge about the accounting practices. Against this background, there was something admirable about Kennedy...
...drab Senate hearing room fittingly dominated by a vast map of the world, witnesses gave the first public testimony last week in the biggest and most brazen financial scandal of all time. Speaking in blunt terms that brought gasps from the packed chamber, they charged what TIME and other media reported in July: the criminal enterprise known as the Bank of Credit & Commerce International thrived as a $20 billion worldwide cash conduit for thugs ranging from terrorists to narcotraficantes, while Washington and other capitals turned a blind eye. "This is a story of big-time, big-money con artists," said...
President F.W. de Klerk is often hailed for his boldness in ending apartheid, but South Africans also regard him as a cautious man. Last week he displayed both traits as he appeared to end stonewalling on "Inkathagate," the scandal over disclosures that Pretoria interfered in black politics by secretly funding Inkatha Freedom Party, a rival of the African National Congress. Denying that he had a double agenda, De Klerk nonetheless sidelined two Cabinet members at the center of the doubts about the government's integrity: Defense Minister Magnus Malan and Law and Order Minister Adriaan Vlok. But rather than dismiss...