Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...20th anniversary of Richard Nixon's resignation on Aug. 9, 1974, has been comparatively ignored. For one thing, Nixon nostalgia was pretty much used up on his death last April. For another, the Watergate scandal that brought down the Nixon presidency doesn't offer much in the way of warm memories. It represents a craven abuse of power, a breakdown of our system of government so appalling that most people would just as soon forget it. Indeed, judging by the Nixon eulogies, many of them have forgotten it. Significantly, it is not an American network but the British Broadcasting Corp...
...company headquarters instead. On Saturday that market evaporated when the company folded up shop, and shares that had dropped from a high of $62 to 50 cents last week were worthless. A regularly scheduled meeting of the Cabinet was devoted almost entirely to the most dramatic financial scandal since the fall of communism...
...that were designed not to inform but conceal. Gonzales opened the session with the strong suggestion that they were a waste of time and the confident assurance that "it is doubtful that any ethical standards were violated." The chairman prevented Republicans from raising questions about most aspects of the scandal and gaveled a Congressman out of order if he exceeded a strict five-minute rule...
...evidence of postal mischief follows a major scandal uncovered last spring in Chicago, which had been plagued by sloppy service and late deliveries. Confirming the public's worst suspicions, police found a foot-high pile of month-old mail under a porch, and fire fighters came upon 2,300 lbs. of old mail in a letter carrier's home...
...feature Larry Nichols, a former Arkansas state employee who was fired and filed a lawsuit against Clinton and others that was dismissed from both Arkansas and federal courts. Since then he has been telling anti-Clinton stories to anyone who will listen. In March he asserted that "it's scandal-of-the-week time." Nichols on both tapes charges that Governor Clinton, through a state agency, provided money-laundering services for a cocaine-smuggling ring that operated out of an airstrip in the little town of Mena, Arkansas...