Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Viveca Novac. "She may have to confront the 'Hillary lied' allegations head on with a press conference." Novak says what's truly baffling is the actions of the White House dealing with the matter. "Firing the travel office was within their rights. It's their handling of the scandal that's been so seemingly inept...
...government in 1983. But faced with 18 felony counts for perjury, he acknowledged that he kept documents secret that had been relevant to the grand jury's investigation, and by so doing reduced his charges to one misdemeanor conviction of withholding information. "HUD has been a hotbed of scandal for some two decades," notes TIME's Anne Blackman. "A lot of federal dollars were being spent in some of the poorest areas, and some rather unsavory characters were able to profit by HUD. However, through vouchers and agency downsizing, Secretary Henry Cisneros has been quite successful at cleaning things...
Utah Representative Enid Greene Waldholtz held a five-hour press conference to explain the soap-opera saga that has sent her skyrocketing political career into the tailspin of a financial and marital scandal. A tearful Waldholtz claimed she was conned by her husband Joe, who she said improperly manipulated both their personal finances and her 1994 campaign funds. Waldholtz insisted she would not resign, though only 39% of surveyed Utah voters believed her version of events...
...expected, Jesse Jackson Jr., son of the civil rights activist, handily beat his G.O.P. opponent for the Chicago-area House seat vacated by scandal-tainted Mel Reynolds. In California, Republican Tom Campbell turned back a Democratic attempt to link him to Speaker Newt Gingrich and won a San Jose House seat, and former Democratic state assembly speaker Willie Brown was elected mayor of San Francisco...
...related criminal investigations in 1993. Even if the dispute fades, the panel has since made a more portentous demand: that the White House produce what it says are missing documents concerning Hillary Rodham Clinton's work for Madison Guaranty, the failed savings and loan at the heart of the scandal, including billing records from the Rose law firm that documented the extent of her involvement...