Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Which is why, as they head toward this year's midterm elections, incumbents worry about fallout from the Rostenkowski indictment. Former Illinois Senator Alan Dixon remembers how, just weeks before his unsuccessful 1992 primary bid against Carol Moseley-Braun, the House banking scandal erupted onto Chicago's front pages. "My polls dropped 7 points in one day, and we didn't even have a bank in the Senate...
...expected to release a report within weeks on Iraqgate that is intended to help clarify just what role, if any, the Reagan and Bush administrations played in allowing Iraq to secure loans and military equipment before the Gulf War. Justice Department sources say that no further indictments in the scandal are expected and that no large conspiracy by Bush Administration officials was found by Justice's task force of lawyers and investigators. Predicts a Justice insider: "Bill Safire will be disappointed...
...First Couple spent part of their weekend being grilled by Special Prosecutor Robert Fiske, who is investigating Whitewater. One focus of the interviews: any contact the White House had with regulators overseeing a probe into the alleged Savings and Loan scandal. Another area of concern was whether anyone tampered with evidence following the suicide of White House aide Vincent Foster. Just when Fiske will turn over his findings to Congress remains unclear, though the Clintons would probably prefer a release date as far from the 1996 election as possible. In the last comparable presidential inquiry, a subpoenaed former President Ronald...
...Gore appeared relaxed when he criticized the media for spending too much time covering issues with "sex appeal"--the House banking scandal or the Congressional pay raise--while almost ignoring issues such as the environment...
...real scandal in welfare isn't the bad apples who break the law and abuse the system," Weld says. "The real scandal is the system itself. Welfare in Massachusetts is bankrupt. It is corrupt. It is messed up. And we're going to tear it apart and make it work...