Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...those of you who are new to the College, our government is known as the Undergraduate Council. Like Congress, the council doesn't seem to care much about what students want. Like Congress, the council doesn't get much done, often because it is mired in scandal. And like Congress, the council is in dire need of reform...
...Most of us were working hard on well-attended, quality events and not getting any credit for it because of the scandal [surrounding a referendum on last year's term-bill hike]," Mann added...
...lady of the Democratic Party." Indeed, her house and her parties were a haven for Democratic loyalists during the Reagan-Bush epoch. Over the years, she raised more than $12 million for Democratic candidates. Clifford, 87, whose name was muddied by the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (B.C.C.I.) scandal, denies any wrongdoing or mismanagement. "Mrs. Harriman didn't profit one dime," says Clifford. "I didn't either, and neither did Paul Warnke. Paul and I feel very badly that we have gotten drawn into a family imbroglio...
...mess at Kidder Peabody, GE's money-losing brokerage unit, where head government-bond trader Joseph Jett concocted $350 million of phony profits over a 29-month period before he was fired in April. Jett now claims to have been acting with the knowledge of his superiors. The scandal led Welch to sack the Kidder chairman, Michael Carpenter, whom he had installed in 1989, and triggered fresh speculation that GE was aching to unload the troubled Wall Street company...
...Wall Street watchers insist that GE's 1987 purchase of that company was fated not to do well from the beginning. Acquired as a unit of GE Capital, a major provider of financial services, Kidder represented a plunge into brokerage and investment banking fields that GE knew little about. Scandal struck soon after the deal was completed when former Kidder merger whiz Martin Siegel pleaded guilty to illegal stock trading and tax evasion in a case that broke open Wall Street's most notorious insider- trading ring. This year Kidder has witnessed not only another huge scam but a swift...