Word: whitewashed
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...astronomical sum of $176 million merely to squash bad publicity. Leo's ridiculous assertion is not only unsubstantiated but also ignores hard evidence leveled against Texaco, such as the Justice Department's incriminating report. Furthermore, even his analysis of the recorded comments of Texaco's executives is a whitewash. The executive who referred to blacks as "black jelly beans" had indeed picked up this terminology from a black diversity instructor. However, his comment was a snide claim that Texaco's "black jelly beans" seemed to be stuck to the bottom of the bag--hardly as innocent as Leo implies...
...candor. After all, John was paying for the shoot and, having been burned in the past by stories of drug abuse, was acutely aware of the value of image control. This week the finished film, Tantrums and Tiaras, premieres in Britain and turns out to be far from a whitewash. Furnish's work documents a tantrum or two as it follows the rocker backstage, in his private jet and around his Windsor mansion. It also unveils John's psyche through chats with his mother and his therapist. The movie may be good therapy; John has already watched it some...
...handful of activists interrupted her meeting on Medicare to protest what they called the "cover-up'' of alleged misdeeds by the Speaker of the House. Johnson, a respected moderate who chairs the House Ethics Committee, has been hearing that message a lot lately. Editorials with headlines like NO WHITEWASH, MRS. JOHNSON and ETHICS PANEL fails its duty have appeared all across the state...
...Independent Review Board, the three-member federally created agency that polices the union. While the board's report criticized Carey for some dishonesty in matters relating to his real estate dealings, it accepted his denials regarding the Mob. Critics in the union described Lacey 's report as a whitewash, while Carey claimed he was the victim of a smear campaign...
This is not the first time critics have accused Lacey of a whitewash. Appointed as the Bush Administration's investigator into the Iraqgate scandal, Lacey declared that the government's handling of the case was "virtually perfect." That brought charges of "patsy" and worse, since many critics felt Lacey should have called for an independent prosecutor. Lacey and his staff have labeled their Teamsters report "extensive," but there were numerous leads unpursued and witnesses not interviewed. For example, Ron Carey's brother Carlisle was not questioned; in 1972 he married the widow of an alleged associate of the Colombo family...