Word: whitewash
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Democrats charged whitewash. Political Strategist Pat Caddell called the FBI investigation "déjà vu of Watergate." The Justice Department said it was turning over its files to the House subcommittee that is still probing. A committee aide hinted, naturally, that the congressional report would be more revealing than the findings of the Justice Department...
...billed as the clash of the titans--superpowers Harvard and Princeton in swimming--a meet that could be decided by the final relay. Instead, it turned out to be a Super Bowl XVIII-style whitewash as the Harvard men's swimming team prevailed, 77-36, Saturday at Blodgett Pool...
...report's conclusions met with some dissent. Panelist Lawrence Stark, a neurologist at the University of California, while agreeing that VDTs do not cause permanent eye damage, contested the view that they are not responsible for eye fatigue. "The report is a whitewash for the status quo," said Stark. "All the complaints of burning, eyestrain, headache, stinging, watery eyes connected with VDT use are valid claims. Just because you cannot measure visual fatigue does not mean it does not exist...
...absolution of the Phalangist high command came as no surprise. It was, after all, submitted to Lebanese President Amin Gemayel, who is himself a Phalangist and whose authority over the country remains tenuous at best. Noting that irony, an editorial in the Jerusalem Post dismissed the report as a "whitewash" and concluded tartly, "The report should be reason enough for Israelis to ponder the moral caliber of their newly found Lebanese friends...
...streets, men in tattered clothing water shrubs, scrub public monuments, whitewash scaly tree trunks or sweep nearly empty stretches of roadway gutters. Business has slowed drastically even in places that cater to the rich. At Las Mañanitas in Cuernavaca, a favorite weekend retreat for the capital's elite, stately white peacocks pick their way among sparsely occupied cane lawn chairs. A few months ago, Mexico's well-to-do had to wait an hour to get a table. Says Claudio Weiz, an Argentine businessman in Mexico City: "Mexicans are in a trauma. They have never suffered...