Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Moreover, Harding can kiss the "dollar signs" goodbye. The combination of her manner and the scandal is sufficient to drive most potential sponsors away. Kerrigan, meanwhile, already enjoys lucrative endorsement contracts with six companies, including Reebok and Campbell's soup. The events of the past week have made Kerrigan even more valuable. "People are calling from all over the country with offers for television and book deals," says Jerry Solomon, her agent. If Kerrigan can find the resources to overcome her legendary skittishness to do well at the Olympics, she might earn more than $10 million in contracts. She doesn...
More important, but thankfully vague at this point, is whether the scandal has hobbled Clinton's ability to command public support in a crisis. When a President, like Bush before the Gulf War, seeks public approval for a life- threatening mission with an argument that finally relies on a plea to "Trust me, you elected me," this is no trifling question...
BRAZIL. The continent's largest economy is consumed by hyperinflation and a huge congressional corruption scandal that has paralyzed the government and renewed rumors of a possible military coup...
Altogether, it seems as if the President, the First Lady and their aides have forgotten everything they learned about damage control during the bitter campaign of 1992. Old Washington hands point out that suspicions of hiding a scandal usually hurt a President far more than the scandal itself. That seems especially true in this case. The affairs of Whitewater and its partners -- the Clintons, James McDougal, the owner of a failed Arkansas savings and loan, and his wife Susan -- were so convoluted that they defy quick summary. Even the questions that the dealings raise are too complex...
People, unfortunately, are not only interested in sex-scandal stories for their salacious details. Like the media, some people also assume that it might be relevant to how we view our elected officials and our politics. People seemed to have resolved the issue of whether a clearly flawed man can be President when they elected Clinton last year. Yet our continuing interest in the tales of Clinton's extramarital activities shows that the line between personal morality and politics is still unclear. If people had a clearer idea of the distinction between morality and politics, newspapers and public forums would...