Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...never does anything psychologically simple had been scheming about Newt's problems for months. Dole told his old campaign manager Scott Reed in January that Americans would tune out Washington even more completely if both the President and the Speaker were fending off scandal. Newt should pay the fine, said Dole, and get on with it. The two men worked on Gingrich privately for weeks, but the Speaker kept resisting. Marianne Gingrich was even more hostile: she didn't believe her husband had done anything wrong, and she refused to pony up the couple's savings. The Gingriches are worth...
...roll; plus, as a man who gets inspirations the way other men get coffee, he began hearing from an unlikely trio of political muses. The first was Janet Reno, who, by opting not to name an independent counsel in the fund-raising scandal, gave Newt a better chance to take the moral high ground. The second was his mother, who told him Monday to get on with his life. And then there was golf champion Tiger Woods, who, Gingrich told aides, showed a discipline he wanted to match...
Already the government is virtually paralyzed: the only business Netanyahu will be conducting for a while is that of defending himself. Efforts last week by U.S. envoy Dennis Ross to restore the peace process were thoroughly overshadowed by the scandal, and no one expects talks to resume while the legal and political maneuvering consumes Israel's attention. A tainted Netanyahu will be more dependent on his right wing, making agreements with the Palestinians that much harder...
...nothing. Israel is also a country that believes in the rule of law. Of course, as the police admitted last week, it is hard to be absolute about what is political wheeling and dealing and what is breaking the law. But if enough Israelis conclude that the stench of scandal is too strong, they may be willing to help bring Netanyahu's bare-knuckle career...
...time passed, and the country felt the impact of the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal, it became clear that ethics needed to be reincorporated into the curriculum...