Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Prabhu resigned as vice chair of the council two weeks ago following a scandal over an invalid social committee election. Steven N. Kalkanis '93 was elected two days later to replace Prabhu as vice chair...
Attaching importance to this correlation, however, would effectively cast aside another relevant aspect of the election's results. Even in the wake of the House Bank Scandal, scores of incumbent representatives, many of whom did write bad checks, were returned to office...
...office in Dallas returns his calls. But the G-men may be a lot less receptive to the billionaire in the wake of last week's revelation that federal agents had conducted a fruitless sting operation against the President's re-election team in Texas. Not since the Watergate scandal of the early 1970s has the FBI found itself so publicly embroiled in national partisan politics...
Details of the scandal remain murky. But this much seems clear: Perot insists that he received a tip-off that high-level Republicans were plotting to wiretap his office telephone last August -- even though he had pulled out of the presidential race in July. Acting largely on information provided by both Perot and Scott Barnes -- a shady storyteller with a prior conviction for tape-recording his telephone conversations with other people -- Oliver ("Buck") Revell, the head of the FBI office in Dallas, sent an undercover agent disguised as a cowboy to meet with James Oberwetter, state chairman of the Bush...
Lake's firm also represents the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, which owns a majority stake in the scandal-plagued Bank of Credit and Commerce International. Massachusetts Senator John Kerry has accused the holding company of hiding evidence of B.C.C.I.'s fraud from U.S. investigators. In April, according to documents filed with the Justice Department, Lake put aside his campaign work for five days and flew to Abu Dhabi to consult with company officials about "strategy and developments." Says Lake: "We gave them advice. That's not lobbying...