Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Holtz-Eakin replied, as his staff released a collective gasp of horror. Eventually, the tanker deal collapsed under a cloud of scandal, further cementing the bond between the Arizona politician and the Princeton-trained economist. "He got me," says Holtz-Eakin, remembering McCain's question. "I liked that...
This is the heart of Clinton's multi-dimensional challenge. Obama has of late signed up more superdelegates than Clinton in part because they are swayed by his lead in elected delegates. Yet unless there is a significant change in the overall dynamic - a major Obama blunder or scandal, for example - he is likely to continue accruing superdelegates regardless of Clinton's big March 4 wins. Also, the act of securing the nomination with unelected convention votes could be considered by many Obama supporters as highly undemocratic, embittering and dividing the party on the eve of the general election...
...campaign event to find that the media facilities were located in a men's room. Literally. Urinals on the walls. It was a gesture so wildly over the top that it wasn't even politics any more - it was pure show business. After battling the media over the Flowers scandal, and the White House travel office firings, and the health care fiasco, and cattle futures, and the Lewinsky crisis and so on, backwards into Arkansas history and all the way up to the rise of Barack Obama, the the Clintons are almost inconceivable minus their favorite foes. But having survived...
...Colombia's conservative and widely popular President Alvaro Uribe, who since his election in 2002 has made his priority security and the resurrection of the country's armed forces in its fight against the FARC - which killed his father in 1983. (Uribe, however, is also embroiled in a scandal over his government's alleged ties to Colombia's bloodthirsty right-wing paramilitary armies, which are also narco-fueled and on State's terrorist list...
...Father Flynn, who is accused by Sister Aloysius of sexually abusing a student. Wright cites the play’s relevance and powerful thematic content as the primary reasons behind her decision to direct it this semester. “Even though this play is about the Catholic priest scandal, it is a debate play as well about ‘Old’ Catholicism and ‘New’ Catholicism because Sister Aloysius represents that old school way of teaching, making her students do things the hard way,” she says...