Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...part, Kiet keeps enormous--some analysts say excessive--control over Vietnam's day-to-day affairs. Rather than focus on national policy, he often finds himself bogged down in local political issues. When a scandal erupted earlier this year over the illegal construction of homes on the crucial dike system protecting Hanoi from the Red River, Kiet had to step in and resolve it. "That's still better than the old days," says a Hanoi bureaucrat. "Then, if you were dying and needed a blood transfusion, you'd have to get Prime Minister Pham Van Dong to sign off." Vietnam...
...latest fallout from the CIA's Aldrich Ames spy scandal could be a cutback in the privacy rights of national security employees. The Clinton Administration said it was drafting new rules that would let investigators peer more easily into the financial records of the 2 million or more civilian and military personnel with access to classified information, and also require those with top security clearances to file regular financial disclosure statements. This is in response to the CIA's failure to detect Ames' extravagant spending of his Soviet-supplied supplemental income...
Steinmetz Scholars Scandal...
...write a check for $5,200 in 1990. She is not expected to serve jailtime. Ex-Rep. Solarz, who himself had a large number of overdrafts from the House Bank, was cleared by a task force. It was the eleventh criminal charge to emerge from the 1992 "Rubbergate" scandal...
...officer paid by the cia may have played in the killing. Studeman's excuse: the case simply "slipped under the carpet." "That's a big carpet," responded Senator Richard Shelby, as he and other panel members accused the agency of intentionally misleading Congress about the agency's latest budding scandal...