Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...largest private television networks, its largest department-store chain, and a host of other holdings in publishing, sports, real estate and advertising. He owes much of his dazzling political ascendancy to the fact that he is one of the few top businessmen untainted by Italy's bribes-for-contracts scandal, which during the past two years has implicated more than 5,000 leading statesmen and businessmen and left a vacuum at the heart of Italian politics...
...complete with public relations consultants and sound-bite coaching. Not surprisingly, the key to success was television. With three national networks at his disposal, the fledgling candidate was able to meticulously craft an image of himself as a savior of a country mired in economic stagnation and convulsed by scandal. Gaps in campaign broadcasting laws allowed him to beam his televised pitch directly into the living rooms of up to 45% of the country's TV viewers, blitzing voters with his vaguely worded commitment to family, business, freedom, profits and competition up to 18 times each day. Promising a Reaganesque...
...assuage Johnson's feelings, he didn't do it by his choice of a replacement. A day after saying goodbye to Johnson, Jones hired Barry Switzer, Johnson's old cross-state rival from Oklahoma University. Switzer, who led Oklahoma to three national championships but left under a cloud of scandal in 1989, has been out of coaching for five years and has never coached in the pros. He is expected to be a more manageable underling for Jones. "Now that the door's open," says Johnson, "he ((Jones)) may become more involved. Switzer will obviously do a lot less than...
This appeal to a scandal-weary membership galvanized thousands of union volunteers to donate money, some of it borrowed, to Carey's $500,000 campaign. He put up only $6,000 of his own cash. "He moaned and cried about needing money to pay off his campaign debts," recalls Gene Giacumbo, a member of Carey's executive board. "And everybody was tapped...
...excerpt, Bean-Bayog emphasized her sense that she was abandoned by her Harvard colleagues when the scandal broke...