Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...culminated in 12 years as confidential assistant to the director of ACTION, the agency that ran the Peace Corps. It was at ACTION that she met the man who is her husband of 10 years, retired civil servant Robert Currie. And it was at ACTION that she first tasted scandal, in 1979, when Congress investigated charges that the agency had given grants to its friends. "Everyone else was panicked," says Anthony Podesta, the Clinton aide's brother, who was a consultant to ACTION during the mess, "but Betty was steady...
Although the visit had been planned before the Lewinsky scandal broke, it was a welcome boost for Clinton. It brought to town a straight-arrow friend who supported him down the line. On most big issues the two governments really do agree. Blair made it clear that British planes would go into battle with the Americans against Iraq, even if they are the only two nations willing...
With Clinton beside him, coolly swatting away scandal questions with no-comments, Blair stood up under withering British fire. Didn't he think the private life of officials should meet the highest standards? Blair replied, "What is essential is that we focus on the issues we were elected to focus on." What words of advice was he giving Clinton.? He didn't presume to give advice at all, said Blair, and the most important thing was to discuss the big issues of policy. "That's what I intend to do. That's what President Clinton is doing. And I think...
...kinks showed up: the Olympic torch kept flickering out, and the first "suspicious package" swooped down on by security forces turned out to be full of toilet-seat warmers. But the point of the Olympics is to make embarrassment irrelevant. "Clinton has a chotto scandaru [little scandal]," a taxi driver chuckled last week. "It's a pity. No one will be thinking of our Olympics." As the Games began, the athletes were proving him--triumphantly--wrong...
...friend Hobart, the conspiracy connoisseur, still sees this White House scandal as a plot by the Democratic National Committee. I personally find it hard to believe the D.N.C. would conspire to bring down its own President, but I know better than to say that to Hobart. It's the sort of observation he usually answers with "Puh-leeze!" or "Give me a break...