Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Like Jimmy Stewart's character in "Philadelphia Story" the press is mad about Charlie and Yvonne's story. Unlike Stewart's character, though the press is represented here as a nosy entity or monolithic proportions. With the O.J. Simpson scandal fresh on everyone's mind the coverage of the tabloids is nothing new. In "It Could Happen to You," the tabloids act more as documentarians, spreading the word to the population of New York City of the progress and setbacks of Charlie and Yvonne's relationship...
Media magnate and new Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi edged closer to being implicated in a corruption scandal when prosecutors issued an arrest warrant for his brother. Paolo Berlusconi, who ran several of his sibling's companies, has been charged with bribing financial regulators. He's since vanished, with police now negotiating with his attorney for his surrender. This isn't the first embarrassment for the new government of Prime Minister Berlusconi, who himself has been trying to soften his party's ultranationalist edges. In a country plagued by political and financial scandal, will this latest news tarnish the Teflon...
...document also says that Charles K. Lee '93, a former co-chair of the event, told the 1993 Evening With Championships co-chairs that payments to him in connection with the scandal were "legitimate reimbursements...
...Along with his co-moonwalker James Irwin, DAVID SCOTT was caught in a scandal back home for carrying more than 400 stamped and canceled envelopes into space for later resale; the affair cost him his place in the astronaut corps. Today he runs a space-transportation consulting firm in California...
...most significant developments in the U.S. prosecution of the global financial scandal involving the Bank of Credit & Commerce International, the former chief executive of the bank, Saleh Naqvi, pleaded guilty to broad federal charges including fraud...