Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Once Again Together in Mourning Michael Kennedy aimed at the heights reached by the titans of his clan, but his share of fame included tawdry scandal and, in the end, a senseless death. TIME magazine reports...
JIMMY CARTER 1976 Cleansing America's palate of years of scandal...
...independent panel on coed training in the military had been appointed in June by Defense Secretary William Cohen because of the 1996 sex scandal at Maryland's Aberdeen Proving Ground, where drill sergeants preyed on young recruits. The panel's members--six women and five men--included retired military officers, lawyers, academics and a former journalist. What surprised many Pentagon officials was that the resulting report seemed to focus as much on sex between recruits as it did on sergeant-trainee abuse...
John Huang answers the phone and quietly tells a caller no, he cannot talk. The central figure in the White House fund-raising scandal, a former Commerce Department official who drummed up millions of dollars in the questioned contributions to the Democratic National Committee, comes close to begging forgiveness in his polite refusal. He says he wishes he could talk, but then congressional investigators and the FBI would also want to chat him up. His wife Jane, interrupted in the midst of her house cleaning, sometimes responds to a doorbell ring at her front door, and always with the same...
...more than a year Reno has viewed the scandal as a series of narrow, unrelated legal questions, not a massive plot. That's partly because Reno's a careful prosecutor and partly because the stories of Asian money, fake donors and trading favors for cash have often dribbled out in incomprehensible pieces. But Reno's reluctance to view these parts as belonging to a larger whole may also be the product of the curious way she has managed the department's internal probe. Three months ago, Reno brought in Assistant U.S. Attorney Charles LaBella from San Diego to shake things...