Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...capital, an enclave of sparkling white marble monuments and Government offices. The other is the District of Columbia, an overwhelmingly black city of 629,000, with an appalling crime rate, disintegrating schools and declining municipal services. That other Washington rarely steals the spotlight from the official one, but the scandal surrounding Mayor Marion S. Barry Jr. these days has focused belated attention on its mounting travails...
...role in the illegal diversion of profits from a secret Iranian arms sale to the Nicaraguan contras, Walsh suddenly moved to drop the most serious charges against the former National Security Council staffer. The independent counsel's action made it all but certain that the total dimensions of the scandal will never be aired in court...
...week Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell indicated that he wanted a Senate committee review of Walsh's decision. Already the judge has postponed the planned Jan. 31 start of the trial in the wake of these new developments. If the rest of Walsh's case collapses, the most embarrassing scandal of Reagan's presidency will end as it began -- in confusion and controversy...
...stock scheme has rocked the government of Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita. Though he has not been directly implicated, his approval rating plunged in December to less than 30%, the lowest level in his 14 months in office. The scandal seemed to magnify public displeasure with Takeshita's sweeping tax-reform bill, including a 3% national consumption tax, which he pushed through the Diet, Japan's parliament, in December...
...scandal erupted last July, when the daily Asahi Shimbun disclosed that the Recruit group, the parent company of a real estate firm called Recruit Cosmos, had sold unlisted stock in the subsidiary at bargain prices in 1984-86 to politicians, journalists and business leaders. The well-placed purchasers reaped millions of dollars in profits when Recruit Cosmos went public and its shares tripled in value. While Japanese firms often sell inexpensive stock to influential buyers, the scope of the Recruit Cosmos handouts was unprecedented. Hiromasa Ezoe, chairman of the Recruit group, sold more than 885,000 unlisted Recruit Cosmos shares...