Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Former Interior Secretary James Watt today pleaded not guilty to charges that he impeded an FBI investigation of a Reagan-era scandal concerning sweetheart deals at HUD by withholding documents. "I have been knocked down in an embarrassing and humiliating way," Watt told reporters. "but I'm not knocked...
...there are any of the usual politician's improprieties lurking in Powell's closet-sexual, financial-no hint of one has ever come to light. Working for Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, Powell did have a small role in the Iran-contra scandal, facilitating the transfer from Army stocks of one of six missile shipments to Iran. His unrevealing congressional testimony about the affair seemed "completely out of character," says Korb. But even Lawrence Walsh, the Iran-contra special prosecutor who criticized Powell's testimony in an August 1993 report for being "at least misleading," says now that "Powell didn...
...march, great men nobly surveying the terrain, great men brought down by tragic flaws (hubris, a voice that sounds like a peanut grinder, a big fishy loan, a shadowy past at the draft board, a bimbo in the closet). But it is humiliation enough just to run for President. Scandal hardly makes it worse. Scandal, in fact, endears the candidate to us. Senator Gramm, when asked why he had opted against military service in his youth, said, "It didn't make sense for a Ph.D. in economics, 26 years old, at the peak of the draft, to leave Texas...
Like many a scandal-plagued politician, IMELDA MARCOS is trying for a comeback. The former Philippine First Lady, who is appealing her conviction on corruption charges, says she will run for a seat in the Philippine Congress. She is said to be a shoe...
...sometimes he fools you. His new album's title track perks and chirps along like a burger jingle. Not until you peel off the tinsel and listen to the lyrics--"You had a scent for scandal/ Well here's my middle finger/ I had 40 years of pain/ and nothing to cling to"--do you hear John raging at his homeland and his fickle fans. "It's sort of a 'screw you' song," says Taupin. "I put myself in his shoes and heard him saying, 'This is me, accept me for what...