Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have spent the last 10 months mired in presidential scandal and the ugly partisanship of impeachment proceedings. The atmosphere in this country has been one of both negativity, complacency and disgust with the political process. But Americans came out yesterday in unprecedented numbers in several states and they reaffirmed their desire to bring politics back to moderate and decent grounds...
...look forward to a better year in Washington, one in which civility prevails over rancor and scandal finally takes a backseat to the important issues that the citizens who voted in Tuesday's elections want to face...
...Democrats did not rely on anti-scandal sentiment alone to bring black voters to the polls...
PARIS: France says its latest spy scandal won't affect relations with NATO, but don't bet on that. Foreign Minister Hubert Vedrine insisted Wednesday that the actions of Pierre Bunel, a senior French officer arrested for passing NATO secrets to the Serbs, are "in no way linked to our policies." That's a relief, since Bunel is suspected of informing the Serbs of NATO's planned targets in Kosovo -- which would have put NATO pilots (including Frenchmen) at risk...
...their handling of those issues. "This was the Republicans' election to lose," says TIME Washington correspondent Jay Branegan, "and it appears they have." Voters sent a strong message to Washington to back off on impeachment -- in exit polls, 61 percent disapproved of the Republicans' handling of the presidential scandal -- but that doesn't mean President Clinton is off the hook: "After a deep breath of one or two days the Washington establishment will again be baying at the moon of impeachment," says Branegan...