Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gives scandal, it would be better to have a great millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths...
...somehow that eroticism invades our lives no matter how we fight it," says Enrique Lopez, 28, a New Mexico native who knew Archbishop Sanchez and who is training to be a diocesan priest. "If Sanchez had been embezzling money or something like that, it would have been a scandal. But because he was involved in a sex scandal, it touched his dignity. I don't think that's fair." Says Lopez's fellow seminarian John Riccardo, 28, of Detroit: "How can you give up sex? It's such a central value in our society. What we're doing is weird...
...heart of the scandal stands the outfit that financed a large portion of it: the Atlanta branch of Italy's Banca Nazionale del Lavoro, which extended $5.5 billion in loans to finance Saddam's military procurement network in the U.S. Critics charge that the Bush Administration, which was eager to support Iraq as a counterweight to Iran, and was even more eager to assure itself access to oil at cheap prices, turned a blind eye to BNL's activities and allowed missile and nuclear technology that helped Iraq's missile and nuclear development to slip out of the country...
...time Iraq stunned the world with its invasion of Kuwait, Gasior was about ready to blow the whistle on her former employer. She had read about the BNL scandal and remembered a transaction at Kennametal that involved carbide tools and a BNL letter of credit. Appalled at the thought that U.S. companies had helped provide Saddam with the equipment to wage war, Gasior and another Kennametal employee took their suspicions to Justice officials in Philadelphia % in December 1990. "They listened carefully until we got to the part about the BNL letter of credit," Gasior says. "Then they stood up, thanked...
...just Kennametal but everyone connected with the military supply of Iraq. For the next year and a half, operating from her dining-room table, she collected documents and evidence. Those documents include internal memorandums from the Justice Department that could prove one of the key allegations of the Iraqgate scandal: that Justice tried to bottle up the investigation. "The issues go beyond Iraqgate," she insists. "Top people in the Justice Department and the Department of Agriculture obstructed justice in this case for political reasons, and they are still there...