Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tenure at Harvard, Taylor has handled some of the most controversial legal matters facing the University, including the Dunster House murder-suicide, the Evening With Champions embezzlement scandal and a number of scientific misconduct cases. She has worked to build consensus between feuding parties within the University, interacting closely with deans and other department heads...
...time has come for Harvard to seriously consider divesting from the Texaco Corporation. The recent scandal in which top Texaco executives were taped discussing their own discriminatory policies is only the latest evidence that the oil giant is seriously lacking in institutional integrity. There has long been evidence that the company discriminates in its hiring and promotion policies, most notably based on a 1991 finding for $17.6 million to a California woman passed over for promotion in favor of a male colleague, as well as a 1995 reprimand by the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs for unfair employment practices...
...Tailhook [scandal] occurred before I got there, but the actions to be taken in response to it fell to me," Gorelick says...
...primary against Shimon Peres, Barak ran less on policy than on the promise that he alone could unseat Benjamin Netanyahu as Prime Minister and return Labor to power. His party has long shared Barak's optimism. In April, at the height of Netanyahu's influence-trading scandal, party leaders deliberately muted their attacks until the day Barak, seen as a better candidate than Peres, could be elected as Labor leader. Barak's first task will be to find the cracks in Netanyahu?s constituency and position himself for the next general election, which is scheduled for 2000 but could...
...first guilty pleas last week by Democratic fund raisers NORA and GENE LUM took some heat off Justice Department lawyers (hey, they're doing something; no need for an independent prosecutor) but raised the heat on a hitherto minor player in the fund-raising scandal: MICHAEL BROWN, son of the late Commerce Secretary. The Lums admitted conspiring to funnel about $50,000 in contributions through "straw donors" to SENATOR EDWARD KENNEDY and an Oklahoma House candidate in 1994 and 1995, and they agreed to cooperate with investigators, who have recently been focusing on Brown, a donor to Kennedy around...