Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...anything, these few morality trials do not go nearly far enough. The real scandal in Congress is not what's illegal; it is what's legal: the blatant, shameless greasing of congressional palms that violates good sense, good taste and good government. Capitol Hill is polluted by money -- campaign money, speech-giving money, outside money from investments, and money substitutes like all-expenses-paid vacations and gifts. Fred Wertheimer, president of the public-interest lobby Common Cause, is looked upon these days as an ethics ayatullah, but he is not overstating by much when he says, "Our nation faces...
...years since the Watergate scandal, repeated efforts at reform have failed because they do not reach the systemic problem. Public officials are now required to file endless financial-disclosure reports, limit the private contributions they accept and wait longer and longer periods of time before they are allowed to lobby their former colleagues. But disclosure works for Congress only if constituents have the opportunity to pore through the voluminous reports and then vote based on what they find there. This welter of regulations has done almost nothing to choke off the cash flow...
...translated his hatred of America into acts of terrorism and defiance that helped undermine one U.S. presidency and led a second into scandal. His followers held 52 Americans captive in the U.S. embassy in Tehran from November 1979 to January 1981, thus dealing a severe blow to the re-election chances of Jimmy Carter. Then, in what began as an effort to secure the release of American hostages held in Lebanon, the Reagan Administration became enmeshed in the Iran-contra affair, its gravest foreign policy blunder...
...School's efforts to improve ethics instruction were facilitated two years ago by the well-publicized $30 million grant to the school, announced shortly after Wall Street's unprecedented insider trading scandal. Two-thirds of the funds were given by 1949 Harvard MBA John S.R. Shad, now Chair of the Board of Drexel, Burnham, Lambert, Inc., who chaired the Securities and Exchange Commission at the time of his gift...
...horrible story had circulated in the halls of Glen Ridge (N.J.) High School for months. Last week the scandal broke into the open when police arrested five teenagers and charged them with sexually attacking a mentally impaired 17-year-old girl. According to investigators, the girl was invited to the home of two of the youths on March 1, where she was forced by the five suspects to perform sexual acts and violated with a broomstick and miniature baseball bat while eight other young men watched...