Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Reno had already launched a 30-day review to determine whether to ask for an independent counsel to investigate Gore. All by themselves, these developments would have moved the desultory Democratic fund-raising scandal out of the summer doldrums. But Reno has started moving on to the biggest target of all. Government sources told TIME that late last week the embattled Attorney General launched an inquiry centered on the President himself. Prompted by a task-force analysis that found the President's own telephone calls may have raised funds that ended up in proscribed "hard money" accounts, Reno opened...
...were to tackle such thorny subjects as Russian arms sales to Iran, the Mir space station and allegations that Moscow continues to test nuclear weapons. More important, the commission gives Gore a chance to huddle with a foreign leader and, even better, escape the campaign-finance scandal in Washington...
Knight, working as the firm's lobbyist, smoothed the way for the donations, the contracts and an unusual personal visits to the firm's headquarters by Gore himself. The little-known Knight probe, under way for some time, could draw the Vice President deeper into a scandal that has its roots in Bill Clinton's last election but may have its greatest impact on Al Gore's next. In a TIME/CNN poll last week, Gore's approval rate dipped to 51%, the lowest level since March. If the next presidential election were held today, pitting Gore against Texas Governor George...
...intrusiveness. In fact, after university, Spencer joined the press corps, taking a job as a light-news correspondent on NBC's Today show, for which he reported directly from the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of York. In a truly paradoxical move, Spencer appeared on the scandal-mongering, syndicated American tabloid show Inside Edition in 1994 to blame the press for the breakup of his sister's marriage and to deem the British media, in particular, "the biggest cancer in society today." Well, perhaps not the biggest. That same year he posed happily for a lengthy cover story...
...England last year for Cape Town, South Africa. Lockwood and the children--Kitty, Katya, Eliza and Louis--are there too, although the couple are separated and planning to divorce. Proceedings scheduled to begin last week have been postponed. In Cape Town Spencer has found himself the subject of some scandal. He had been seeing South African fashion designer Chantal Collopy, whose husband brought suit against the earl for ruining their marriage after his wife left him. More recently, Spencer has been linked to another South African, model and fashion editor Josie Borain...