Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...distinctions between the academies and civilian schools blur, the ! military honor code is what sets them apart. But that too is under attack, most recently in the biggest cheating scandal in Annapolis history. A special Navy panel recommended on March 31 that the Navy Secretary punish 71 members of the class of 1994, 29 of them by expulsion, for cheating on a 1992 engineering exam. What outraged many academy supporters, including some admirals, was the unsuccessful lawsuit, filed by 40 midshipmen implicated in the scandal, seeking to halt the panel's work. The middies contended their constitutional rights were violated...
...scandal comes at a time when interest in the academy, and the military in general, is cooling. While applications have lagged at all three since the cold war's end, the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, which no longer guarantees its graduates a chance to fly, has seen applications plummet from 16,600 for the class arriving in 1988 to 8,800 for this year's plebes. John Murtha of Pennsylvania, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee's defense panel, says the number of his constituents seeking congressional appointments to the academies has dropped by half in the past...
...that he wanted to quit. His indiscretion was immediately leaked to the press, prompting an official denial that same night. Three days later, however, Hosokawa set his resignation in motion. A popular reformer who came to power last August pledging to sweep out "money politics" was outrun by a scandal of his own making...
...political- reform bill. Most of the senior politicians now jockeying for his job came of age in the same money-swamped system, and the opposition Liberal Democratic Party, which ruled Japan for 37 years until displaced by Hosokawa's government, lost two of its last 10 Prime Ministers to scandal. In fact, some analysts think Hosokawa, because of his popularity, could have beaten back the attempts to unseat him. But this supremely independent descendant of feudal lords does as he pleases. He reportedly told his eel-and-sake companions that he wanted more freedom to move around. Some Japanese thought...
...knows exactly how consequential the current scandal at the White House may prove to be, but that hasn't prevented top lawyers from finding plenty of Whitewater-related work. Will one of these men be the next Brendan Sullivan...