Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DESPITE OBJECTIONS FROM SOME OF HIS STAFF, IRAN-CONTRA independent counsel LAWRENCE WALSH plans to end his six-year investigation into the scandal and thus leave a number of key questions unanswered. The special prosecutor favors closing out the inquiry before it becomes a partisan issue in the presidential campaign. But Craig Gillen, Walsh's deputy, wants to pursue allegations that former Secretary of State George Shultz was regularly briefed by a top aide on secret intelligence material about hostage negotiations. Walsh's decision also means it is unlikely that any legal action will be taken against Donald Gregg...
Italy's biggest postwar financial scandal brought down an industrial titan when Carlo De Benedetti, chairman of Olivetti, was sentenced to six years and four months in prison for complicity in the 1982 collapse of Banco Ambrosiano, Italy's largest private bank. He promises an appeal...
...results of the ruckus at Harvard over the April Fool's Day parody of a deceased faculty member are likely to be similar to those of a recent scandal that tarnished the reputation of another prestigious law school, Georgetown...
...They have a $10 million budget, and "what they'll do," says Stone, "is kind of obvious." All they've said so far is what they won't do: they won't establish a 900 number so the curious can hear the Gennifer Flowers tapes. Beyond that, every mini-scandal and Clinton slickery is considered fair game...
David Baltimore, the Nobel Laureate who oversaw the research team that O"Toole was involved with, resigned his post last year as president of Rockefeller University, saying that the controversy that surrounded him after the scandal made it difficult...