Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Bill Clinton himself was on the spot last week. During House hearings on the White House travel-office scandal, it emerged that in early 1993 the President pushed a business proposal by his friend TV producer Harry Thomason. Clinton made notations on the proposal that an aviation business Thomason partly owned be awarded a $500,000 no-bid government contract. "These guys are sharp," he wrote, and put a check in the box marked ACTION...
While in Europe, Gurwin dug into the scandalous transactions of Italy's Banco Ambrosiano, a story that in 1983 won him an Overseas Press Club Award and produced a book, The Calvi Affair. Returning to the U.S. as a free-lancer in 1988, Gurwin helped break another banking scandal, this one involving the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, or B.C.C.I. His exposa spurred a major federal investigation and led to another book, False Profits (1992), written with Peter Truell. We persuaded him to bring his talents to TIME last June...
Gurwin's collaborator on the Investcorp story is himself a master at unraveling tangled business dealings. Zagorin, a 17-year TIME veteran, has reported from Wall Street, the Middle East, Brussels and Paris, where he served as European economic correspondent. Among his assignments was the very B.C.C.I. scandal that Gurwin originally helped unearth. "Our backgrounds made us natural partners," says Gurwin. "Even our writing styles meshed. I wrote the nouns and Adam wrote the verbs...
...Garland, Carson) and cons (Mr. T, Suzanne Somers) and, by her own count, seven alleged murderers. This woman, who was caricatured in her Sarah Lawrence yearbook as an ostrich with its head in the sand, has stuck her nose into the conflict in the Middle East, the Iran-contra scandal and the marriage of Mike Tyson and Robin Givens. She is a living, talking, occasionally fawning chronicle of culture and politics in the latter half of the 20th century. She is like a redwood that...
...deepening corruption scandal in his home country of Belgium forced Willy Claes to step down from his post as NATO Secretary-General, complicating Bosnian peace efforts. Claes resigned a day after the Belgian Parliament voted to force him to stand trial on charges of corruption, bribery and forgery in connection with a military-contract kickback scandal in the late 1980s, when he was the country's Economics Minister. Claes maintains that he is "totally innocent...