Word: shock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There's a pattern to these cases. Once the scandal breaks, the company expresses total shock that any of its employees could have done such a thing. Then it volunteers to work with authorities in nabbing the culprits. No matter how many millions of dollars are involved, the culprits turn out to be loners. Their superiors hardly knew their name. This is the "the butler did it" phase...
...apple or Bambi's mother die from a hunter's shotgun blast. Disney cartoons were often the first films kids saw and the first that forced them to confront the loss of home, parent, life. These were horror movies with songs, Greek tragedies with a cute chorus. They offered shock therapy to four-year-olds, and that elemental jolt could last forever...
While Rostenkowski may have known the extent of the potential indictment against him, for most other people it came as a shock when Holder finally unveiled it last week. In addition to a charge that was already familiar -- that from 1978 to 1991 Rostenkowski took at least $50,000 in cash disguised as office purchases of stamps from the House post office -- the 17-count indictment outlined a collection of schemes that allegedly cost taxpayers more than $500,000. In the most damning part, it accused Rostenkowski of a kickback scam in which he put 14 people on his payroll...
...terrible shock to find the outside world invading your campus. Much of our class reacted with rage and chat. There were tee shirts, mass meetings in the stadium, discussions into the night. I can remember the photographs of the helmets gleaming...
...executives were doing their best last week to minimize the shock of the Murdoch heist. At a Thursday press conference, CBS Broadcast Group president Howard Stringer pointed out that the affiliation switches affect only 8% of the network's audience and predicted that the ratings loss would amount to no more than two-tenths of a Nielsen point. (CBS was No. 1 in the Nielsens for the 1993-94 season with a 14.0 rating, 1.6 points higher than No. 2 ABC and 6.8 points better than...