Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Raul's threats succeeded, Ritter's supporters would have been able to go into the last ballot only one vote short of a majority. They would have been in a strong position to pressure the rest of the member-states into line. But Raul failed, and the scandal has probably killed Ritter's chances...
...largely oral, and is wide open to dispute. But it may be easier to settle that than to reconcile the thornier question of how much privacy an insane convict is entitled to in the face of the public's right to be informed about what amounts to a state scandal...
...already cost $8 billion that France can ill afford, and it is still costing more than $2 billion a year. Its costs amount to about 10% of the national budget in a country whose housing is among the worst in Western Europe, whose ancient schools are a national scandal and whose roads are woefully inadequate. Most important, the country faces stiff economic competition abroad, especially from West Germany and the U.S., and could better channel its money into making more computers and the other equipment necessary to run a modern economy. "While we are preparing for a military war, which...
Reagan's explosive reaction magnified what might have been a relatively minor incident. By contrast with scandal involving White House Aide Walter Jenkins in 1964, there was no arrest in the present instance-nor for that matter were there any of the national-security implications raised by the Jenkins affair, since a Governor's office is unlikely to have any national secrets worth worrying about. The upshot was to cast doubt both on Reagan's credibility and his tactical skill in dealing with the difficult situations that inevitably confront a major league politician...
...century, state laws in the U. S. have generally made abortion a crime except where necessary to save a woman's life. The ban is enforced by religious beliefs, medical ethics, fear of social scandal. Yet it is flouted throughout the country-in the same pattern, though not in the same numbers, as Prohibition was decades ago. Written by men, anti-abortion laws cannot quell the desperation of women for whom a particular pregnancy is a hateful foreign object. At their time of despair, women agree with Author Marya Mannes, who reviles such laws as the work...