Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...campaign last time, and we plan to do the same thing this time," he says. His reluctance is understandable, given the fact that Etheridge recently became the first Democrat to be the target of a television ad tarring him with Bill Clinton's sexual infidelities. "Scandal after scandal, day after day," intones the ad. "And who stands with Bill Clinton, even now? Liberal Bob Etheridge...
...Those in attendance echoed the words of rancher Grant Gerson, 77, who said, "People are fed up with it. I don't think it's relevant to anything going on here." And yet Sherman, who won his seat in 1996 by just 5 percentage points, is concerned that the scandal will cost him 3 of those points this year, turning his re-election bid into a fight for survival...
Into this seething mess steps President Bill Clinton, whose two-day summit meeting with Yeltsin is scheduled to begin Tuesday. Neither President stood to gain much presidential luster from the meeting, since Yeltsin is politically moribund and Clinton is scandal-scarred and unable to offer the Russians serious assistance. U.S. officials fretted about the meeting until the last moment, wondering whether Yeltsin would still be in office when they arrived at the Kremlin, or whether he might quit as soon as they left...
Although limited war is now commonly supported as a greatly preferable alternative to all-out war, limited scandal seems a thing of the past. At some point in the O.J. trial, with both sides promising to call witnesses to challenge the credibility of any witness called to challenge the credibility of a witness, it occurred to me that if this lasted long enough, we might all be called to testify...
Once you put an all-out scandal in motion, there's no stopping it, which is why I doubt that all this is behind us. We've gone so far as to have ABC bump a football game so we could hear the President confess that he had I.R.'d an intern after all. As overnight polls indicated that most Americans were satisfied by the apology, TV pontificators informed us that it wasn't an apology that would satisfy most Americans. It was limited, they said. This...