Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Nannygate scandal has stirred up passions that seem certain to outlast it. "We have these convulsions periodically," says Thomas Mann, a senior political analyst at the Brookings Institution. "Some kind of behavior comes to the surface because of a particular event, then we get a flood of publicity and obligatory surveys. Everybody points fingers, and then the tide subsides and we return to greater normalcy." While that may be true, the country's need for affordable child care is a tide that will keep on running...
...wrongdoing and has offered to compensate the FBI for some of the disputed travel expenses. Vice President Gore said last week that Sessions may have been targeted by Barr because of Sessions' plan to probe charges that the Justice Department was involved in a cover-up of the Iraqgate scandal. "We owe him a fair review of the allegations," said Gore. But agents who feel that Sessions has brought shame on the FBI have breached the bureau's traditional code of secrecy. Agents openly refer to Sessions as "Director Concessions," "the empty suit" and "Chauncey Gardiner," after the simpleminded hero...
Many G-men disparagingly compare the FBI director's wife to the eccentric Martha Mitchell, who while her husband John was Attorney General was resented for getting entangled in Justice Department politics during the Watergate scandal. According to the ethics report, Mrs. Sessions used bureau cars as transportation to get her hair and nails done. She also barged into official business in an unhelpful way, agents say. An FBI official describes her coming into a confidential meeting in Sessions' office at the FBI "in a housecoat and slippers," turning on the TV and thereby ending the briefing. Mrs. Sessions...
...barely a week after Beys' election, another scandal has shaken the Council. A student appointed under questionable circumstances to fill a vacant seat voted in last week's balloting to elect Beys...
...That scandal has not been linked to Beys, but it has stained the council as a whole, lending weight to charges of an old boys' network. Beys needs to change that image. With every new semester and new set of officers, the council has the opportunity to clean the slate. But far from being able to forge substantive gains for oft-neglected undergraduates, the council seems forever unable to keep itself from public ridicule...