* 1998 – Lewinsky scandal: US President Bill Clinton admits in taped testimony that he had an " improper physical relationship " with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.

* 2007 – Airport police officer María del Luján Telpuk discovers a suitcase containing the undeclared sum of US $ 800, 000 as it goes through an x-ray machine in Aeroparque Jorge Newbery in Buenos Aires, Argentina sparking an international scandal involving Venezuela and Argentina known as " Maletinazo ".

In comparison, today's American daily tabloids are generally much less overheated and less oriented towards scandal and sensationalism than their predecessors, or their British counterparts, reduced to sections of only one-three pages as Internet sources and magazines such as US Weekly have taken up the mantle of disseminating most gossip.

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* Lewinsky scandal – US president Bill Clinton was caught in a media-frenzied scandal involving inappropriate relations with a White House intern Monica Lewinsky, first announced on 21 January 1998.

During Sloan's leadership of GM, many public transport systems of trams in the US were replaced by buses in what became known as the Great American streetcar scandal.

** George W. Bush and Al Gore, for the scandal that surrounded the 2000 US Presidential Election

In 2005, a Pentagon analyst pled guilty to charges of passing US government secrets to two AIPAC staffers in what is known as the AIPAC espionage scandal.

The price reflected a US $ 200 million discount on the originally agreed figure, caused by the public disclosure of the defect cover-up scandal.

* Joshua Micah Marshall-writer and journalist, operates the muckraking blog TPM Muckraker, responsible for helping to break the 2006-2007 US Attorney firing scandal, the Duke Cunningham corruption case and others.

Despite the US government's official position against the drug trade, US government agents and assets have been implicated in the drug trade and were caught and investigated during the Iran-Contra scandal, implicated in the use of the drug trade as a secret source of funding for the USA's support of the Contras.

On July 25, 2005 CIBC confirmed it would pay US $ 125 million to settle an investigation into its role in the 2003 Mutual-fund scandal.

In 1989, he divorced his wife Margaret Papandreou and married Dimitra Liani, while in the same year he was indicted by the Hellenic Parliament in connection with a US $ 200 million Bank of Crete embezzlement scandal, and was accused of facilitating the embezzlement by ordering state corporations to transfer their holdings to the Bank of Crete, where the interest was allegedly skimmed off to benefit PASOK, and possibly some of its highest functionaries.

Clinton left office with the highest end of office approval rating of any president since World War II, but he was the first US president to be impeached since Andrew Johnson, and only the second in US history, as a result of the Lewinsky scandal, though like Johnson, he was acquitted by the Senate.

After the emergence of the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse scandal in May 2004, Turki stated that he had complained to Paul Bremmer, the US head of the Coalition Provisional Authority in November 2003 of human rights violations in Iraqi jails but had " received no answer ".

Despite the scandal, Klaus was re-elected party chairman, and in January 1998, some legislators opposed to Klaus, led by Jan Ruml and Ivan Pilip, left the party in the so-called ' Sarajevo Assassination ' and formed the Freedom Union ( US ).

Calderon's wife, Mrs. Gloria Bejarano Almada, who currently serves as a deputy at the Asamblea Legislativa ( congress of the country ) and who is a member of the parliament's directorate, was sentenced to pay US $ 70 000 to the Costa Rican government for her participation in the scandal.

According to the ruling, Mrs. Bejarano Almada obtained an economic profit in the scandal In Spanish-Bejarano should pay US $ to the State.

This action only increased ( a ) the billions of dollars their ultimate failures cost the US taxpayers and ( b ) the magnitude of the resulting scandal.

This could be a gesture of confidence in the official, as with US President George W. Bush's refusal of his Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's twice-offered resignation during the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal.

The Tennessee Senate, controlled by Democrats and led by Johnson, boycotted the joint session and blocked the filling of both the US Senate seats, denying Tennessee representation in the U. S. Senate until 1843.

In 1941, interviews on American radio and favorable articles in US magazines, including a piece by Jack Alexander in The Saturday Evening Post, led to increased book sales and membership.

On 12 March 2007, a consortium led by Prodrive chairman David Richards purchased Aston Martin for £ 475m ( US $ 848m ).

Steady growth in tourism receipts and a boom in construction of new hotels, resorts, and residences had led to solid GDP growth in recent years, but the slowdown in the US economy and the attacks of September 11, 2001 held back growth in these sectors in 2001-03.

The stubborn defense by US units and German weakness led to a defeat for the Germans.

On 19 August 1915, sank the White Star Liner with the loss of 44 lives-this included three Americans and led to a diplomatic incident between Germany and the US.

Despite the retreat of US and UN forces after several deaths due to local hostilities mainly led by Aidid, the introduction of a powerful military force opened the transportation routes, enabling the provision of supplies and ended the famine quickly.

The metaphor has been useful in helping a new generation of thought leaders to reason through new military strategies around the world, led largely by the US Department of Defense ( DoD ).

Its publication was one of the signature events in the birth of the environmental movement, and resulted in a large public outcry that eventually led to DDT being banned in the US in 1972.

Both weak distribution and the sharing of a common language with the US have frequently led to a blurring of the two industries.

In 1959, a team led by Harry Ihrig built a 15 kW fuel cell tractor for Allis-Chalmers which was demonstrated across the US at state fairs.

Portugal, belonging to the part of Europe led by the US, remained linked to the idea of the socialist state.

This led Herbert Hoover to appoint two commissions, including one headed by a former US governor of the Philippines William Cameron Forbes, which criticized the exclusion of Haitians from positions of authority in the government and constabulary, now known as the Garde d ' Haïti.

Events during the 1980s in El Salvador and Nicaragua led Honduras — with US assistance — to expand its armed forces considerably, laying particular emphasis on its air force, which came to include a squadron of US-provided F-5s.

His open endorsement of terrorism led to the Reagan administration declaring Libya a " state sponsor of terrorism " on 29 December 1979, and eventually culminated in the 1986 US Bombing of Libya.

A halter ( US ) or headcollar ( BI ) ( occasionally headstall ) consists of a noseband and headstall that buckles around the horse's head and allows the horse to be led or tied.

This idea, which looked very promising in 1957, was proposed to the US Army by Jack Kilby, and led to the short-lived Micromodule Program ( similar to 1951's Project Tinkertoy ).

This led to several armed incidents, notably attacks by Yugoslav fighter planes on US transport aircraft, causing bitter criticism from the west.

A few days later, Colonel John M. Chivington led US troops in a massacre at Sand Creek.

Intense attacks against U. S. and Western interests, including two truck bombings of the US Embassy in 1983 and 1984 and the landmark attacks on the U. S. Marine and French parachute regiment barracks on October 23, 1983, led to an American withdrawal, while the virtual collapse of the Lebanese Army in February 1984 was a major blow to the government.

The paper's return is interrupted when the US Army, led by Lois's father, General Sam Lane, forcibly shuts down the business.

* 1942 – World War II: Guadalcanal Campaign: Battle of Tassafaronga – A smaller squadron of Japanese destroyers led by Raizō Tanaka defeats a US cruiser force under Carleton H. Wright.

A team of US / UK construction engineers, led by Huw Thomas, is currently planning ways to save the building and the tomb.

In 1871 the Polaris expedition, a US attempt on the Pole led by Charles Francis Hall, ended in disaster.

In 2007, the US Navy found that company employees had used incorrect metal to fuse together pipes and joints on submarines under construction which could have led to cracking and leaks.