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And the recent “Windrush”
scandal
over the government’s poor treatment of Caribbean-born legal residents has reprised the illiberal legacy of May’s previous tenure at the Home Office.But equally insidious has been the government’s embrace of “Britain First” mercantilism, under which arms sales to Saudi Arabia are not a matter for caution, but rather an opportunity for profit.
And the recent “Windrush”
scandal
over the government’s poor treatment of Caribbean-born legal residents has reprised the illiberal legacy of May’s previous tenure at the Home Office.
In Italy, the postwar political parties – the Christian Democrats, the Communists, and the Socialists – experienced something of a mass extinction, after the Tangentopoli (Bribesville) corruption
scandal
erupted in 1992.
The Sumo gambling scandal, indeed, may be a prelude to it.
But its most damaging deficit is to be found in governance, as is true of China, where the Bo Xilai
scandal
has exposed the pathological underside of China’s vaunted technocratic leadership.
Indeed, fear of a similar dynamic is evident in Chinese officials’ response to the Bo
scandal.
At the same time, while the Wolfowitz
scandal
unfolded, China was playing host to the Africa Development Bank (ADB), which held its Board meeting in Shanghai.
Facing accusations that he had transferred nearly $700 million from the state investment fund 1MDB to his personal bank accounts, Prime Minister Najib Razak attempted to block news outlets and blogs that reported on the
scandal.
The Parmalat
scandal
may have been a blow to global capitalism, but in Italy it is hoped that it might sound the death knell for an economic system traditionally based much more on "connections" amongst private groups - and between these groups and the public sector - than on competitive markets.
The country and its increasingly grey-haired president are experiencing one tragedy, scandal, or disappointment after another.
True, neither of Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s two predecessors left amidst
scandal
as he did.
As in the 2011 accounting
scandal
involving Olympus Corporation, Ghosn’s alleged misconduct was revealed to the company’s management by an inside source.
Meanwhile, domestic tension in China – particularly the
scandal
surrounding the purge of former Chongqing Communist Party boss Bo Xilai and the country’s economic slowdown – has probably prompted the government to play the nationalist card more forcefully than usual.
Nixon was far from mad, though his heavy drinking at the height of the Watergate
scandal
prompted Kissinger and Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger to establish a way to monitor his control of the nuclear codes.
Still another film reawakens not-so-distant American history and casts it in a radically altered light: Doug Liman’s Fair Game reinterprets the Valerie Plame/Joe Wilson
scandal
of 2003, and reveals that Plame was far from being a glorified secretary, as the Bush administration had portrayed her.
It could have been payback for the recent NATO meeting in Warsaw, where Russia’s aggression was at the top of the agenda, or even for the handling of the doping
scandal
that nearly kept Russia out of the Rio Olympic Games.
Indeed, the fact that many school buildings were flattened in Sichuan prompted an outcry from ‘netizens,’ who grilled local officials about whether it substandard building codes or even a notorious “toufuzha construction scandal,” namely, jerry-built projects, that had led to the disproportionate number of dead pupils.
Why investigate and report this
scandal?
Although hectored by criminal accusations and the discovery of a Swiss bank account in his name, he is trying to rise above
scandal
to recapture the presidency.
Unlike the British and the Americans, the French are much less obsessed with sex than they are with financial
scandal.
To his devotees, he was like an enlightened monarch, a man who gave up his successful private businesses to help Italy rebuild from the ashes of Italy’s post-war party system, which had collapsed in a vast corruption
scandal
that had left almost no part of government unsullied.
Thailand’s new prime minister assumed office surrounded by scandal, Malaysia’s politics seem more unsettled than at any time in twenty years.
My immediate predecessor as Governor of Tokyo, Yoichi Masuzoe, resigned over a spending scandal, so I doubt that prudent budgeting has been the credo in planning for the Games up to now.
Saving General PetraeusPRINCETON – The United States has moved from the high of a presidential election to the low of a political sex
scandal
in one short week.
The hubbub of tawdry disclosures and investigations addressing every aspect of a widening
scandal
may well last for weeks.
Her decision to keep Greece in the eurozone, her courageous but unpopular choice to allow in a million refugees, the Volkswagen scandal, and flagging economic growth (owing to the slowdown of China and emerging markets) have exposed her to criticism even from her own party.
Although the MPs’ expenses
scandal
– parliamentarians claiming reimbursement for dubious expenses – hit both main parties, the most egregious cases involved wealthy Conservative MPs.
For example, problems with the operations of some markets – reflected in the price-fixing
scandal
regarding Libor (London Interbank Offered Rate), a benchmark interest rate – became apparent in 2007 and 2008.
Peterson is a slightly more couth version of another male self-help guru, Julien Blanc, who caused a
scandal
a few years ago by stating that women enjoy being taken by force.
The particular circumstances that enabled his electoral victory in 2017 – a discredited center-left, and a center-right candidate disqualified by
scandal
– will not reproduce themselves.
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