Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Start campaigns to increase voter turnout for council elections, continue to increase student involvement in local politics with voter registration drives, educate students on the U.C.'s role and request input into how it might evolve to better meet students' concerns; and for heaven's sake, try to avoid scandal. If you can't avoid it, punish it mercilessly...
Four years after the infamous Tailhook scandal, the Navy is, at the very least, still climbing a steep learning curve. Admiral Jeremy M. Boorda, chief of naval operations, does not see a trend in the rash of sexual-harassment cases. "We have set some standards," he says, "and I think what you're seeing now is the result of those standards being applied...
...reaction crystallized the problem that Simpson, despite his acquittal, faces in trying to rehabilitate his image, resurrect his career, resume a normal life--or even tell his side of the story. Many pundits, operating on the assumption that for the rich and famous, every scandal is a career move, predicted that Simpson would, if cleared, be back on the celebrity circuit in no time. Yet Simpson has entered uncharted waters. Other stars, from Fatty Arbuckle to Michael Jackson, have been tainted by criminal charges or allegations, but none has weathered a murder trial whose every evidentiary twist and turn...
Hardly recovered from the Tailhook scandal, the Navy set sail once again on the treacherous seas of a sexual-harassment case. In Washington, court-martial proceedings opened against Captain Everett Greene to examine charges that he wrote suggestive notes and made harassing calls to two female subordinates. He insists his messages were misconstrued. On Friday the judge dismissed one woman's allegations. At the time of the alleged incidents, Greene ran the Navy's equal-opportunity unit--which handled sex- harassment complaints...
...Williams keeps talking about reform,'' says Rabbi Gary Greenebaum, a former police commission president, "but I did not see him lift a finger to implement it." Greenebaum recently resigned to protest a scandal in which Williams accepted free lodging during five trips to Las Vegas, then lied about doing so. The city council backed Williams over Greenebaum's police commission, but Williams filed a claim against the city for leaking the report, then settled out of court--a shabby little sideshow to the O.J. spectacle...