Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...independent counsel investigating the contract-steering scandal surrounding former Housing Secretary Samuel Pierce announced that he would not bring any charges against the Reagan Administration official owing to lack of evidence. But the prosecutor, whose probe has resulted in 16 convictions of subordinates and others, forced Pierce to release a statement admitting that "my own conduct contributed to an environment in which these events could occur...
...secret scandal of the health and fitness craze is that after...
...when scientists finally put a representative sampling of Americans on the scale, the decade's secret scandal was uncovered: rather than getting healthy in the health-conscious '80s, Americans actually plumped out. It's not just that individuals got heavier as they got older, although they did: the average weight gain between ages 30 and 39 is 4 lbs. for men and 9 lbs. for women. It's that fortysomethings are now heavier than fortysomethings were 10 years ago, thirtysomethings now are heavier than thirtysomethings then, and so on down the demographic ladder...
...times, he got caught up in the drama of leading Harvard's student body, Hanselman was also one of the most competent council presidents in recent memory. Not only did he lead the organization through a scandal-free semester (no small feat, in light of the corruption that plagued the last two administrations), but he succeeded in pushing the council to take stands on issues of importance to students: whether the College adopts a one-dean or two-dean administrative structure, for example, and how the University should handle its ties to ROTC...
When the Ames case broke, Woolsey acted like a lawyer defending a client rather than a director intent on cleaning up the worst spy scandal in the agency's history. Woolsey has estimated that Ames compromised more than 100 operations, which led to the death of at least 10 Soviet agents who had been working for the U.S. A CIA inspector general's report last September accused the agency's operations directorate of gross mismanagement for taking so long to uncover Ames. Senior CIA officials privately urged Woolsey to fire or demote some agency officers even before the inspector general...