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wake and Abramoff
He said Republicans needed to win back the trust of the American people in the wake of the Jack Abramoff scandal.

wake and scandal
Zogu soon stepped aside, however, handing over the premiership to Verlaci in the wake of a financial scandal and an assassination attempt by a young radical that left Zogu wounded.
** United States Secretary of the Navy Henry L. Garrett III resigns in the wake of the Tailhook scandal.
** Noboru Takeshita resigns as Prime Minister of Japan in the wake of a stock-trading scandal.
He became Chancellor of West Germany on 16 May 1974, after Brandt's resignation in the wake of an espionage scandal.
Questionable DNA samples taken from Sutton were retested in the wake of the Houston Police Department's crime lab scandal of mishandling DNA evidence.
Peres succeeded Rabin as party leader prior to the 1977 elections when Rabin stepped down in the wake of a foreign currency scandal involving his wife.
It was operated by Associated Universities, Inc. ( AUI ), from 1947 until 1998 when Associated lost the contract in the wake of a scandal when tritium leaked into the Long Island Central Pine Barrens groundwater on which it sits.
A few years after the Ambrosiano scandal, many suspects pointed toward Gelli with reference to his possible involvement in the murder of the Milanese banker Roberto Calvi, also known as " God's banker ", who had been jailed in the wake of the collapse of Banco Ambrosiano.
The profession, in turn, was not kind to Dr. Briloff but much of what he advocated has been forced on the industry in the wake of the Enron scandal ( See Sarbanes-Oxley ).
In the wake of the Teapot Dome scandal and other business-related scandals, Democrats and Progressive Republicans objected to the nomination because of Warren's close association with the Sugar Trust.
Giscard's next presidential reelection campaign failed in the wake of the scandal.
Despite this, Cicotte and his alleged co-conspirators were subsequently made permanently ineligible for baseball by Kenesaw Mountain Landis, Major League Baseball's new commissioner, recently hired to restore the integrity of the game in the wake of the 1919 scandal.
In the wake of a succession of issues the pushing of a highly unpopular consumer tax through the Diet in late 1988, the Recruit insider trading scandal, which tainted virtually all top LDP leaders and forced the resignation of Prime Minister Takeshita Noboru in April ( a successor did not appear until June ), the resignation in July of his successor, Uno Sosuke, because of a sex scandal, and the poor showing in the upper house election the media provided the Japanese with a detailed and embarrassing dissection of the political system.
The foreign press suggested that Albert Victor was sent on a seven-month tour to British India from October 1889 to avoid the gossip which swept London society in the wake of the scandal.
" The move mimicked the decision Major League Baseball had made in hiring judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis as League Commissioner the previous year to quell questions about the integrity of baseball in the wake of the 1919 World Series gambling scandal ; The New York Times even called Hays the " screen Landis ".
After Wilson lost a leadership challenge in the wake of a personal scandal in a bitter three-way race, the party was led by Gordon Campbell, who became Leader of the Opposition after Wilson's convention defeat.
This was after the current incumbent Anthony Steen decided to step down in the wake of the MPs expenses scandal.
Ōkuma returned to politics during the constitutional crisis of 1914, when the government of Yamamoto Gonnohyōe was forced to resign in the wake of the Siemens scandal.
Colangelo put together a group that bought the Suns in late 1987, in the wake of the drug scandal.
Strauss was forced to step down as defence minister in 1962 in the wake of the Spiegel scandal.
In the wake of the 2009 MPs ' expenses scandal, a poll of readers of the Guardian and Observer newspapers placed support for abolition of the monarchy at 54 %, although only 3 % saw it as a top priority.
In May 2009, he came out in support of the Green Party in the weeks before the 2009 European elections, supporting the Green Party's ' Clean Campaigning ' pledge in the wake of the scandal over MPs ' expenses.
The field was unofficially known as " The Field Formerly Known As Enron " by fans and critics alike, in wake of the Enron scandal.

wake and Washington
A number of wars occurred in the wake of the Oregon Treaty of 1846 and the creation of Oregon Territory and Washington Territory.
Measure 51, referred in the wake of Washington v. Glucksberg by the state legislature in November, 1997, sought to repeal the Death with Dignity act, but was rejected by 60 % of voters.
In its wake, teams such as the New York Mets, New York Yankees, San Diego Padres, St. Louis Cardinals, Boston Red Sox, Washington Nationals, Arizona Diamondbacks, Cleveland Indians, and the Toronto Blue Jays have hired full-time sabermetric analysts.
In the wake of the " Battle of Seattle " and a similar resurgence of anti-capitalist protest and organising, activists in cities such as Seattle ; Washington, D. C .; and Chicago formed Convergences to carry out protests more effectively and to ensure that anti-capitalist organising would continue after major demonstrations had left the city.
Schaap's final regular TV appearance was on the September 16, 2001 broadcast of The Sports Reporters on the Sunday following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington, D. C. That weekend all major American college and professional sporting events had been cancelled, and Schaap and his panelists discussed the diminished role of sports in the wake of the tragedy.
In 2009, in the wake of the 2008 worldwide financial crisis, a number of journalists, politicians and senior officials from global institutions such as the World Bank began saying that the Washington Consensus was over.
During their tenure in Washington, the Clark family ( consisting of Clark, his wife and four children ) was in the wake of the controversy over the Reed Smoot hearings in the US Senate.
On January 10, 2011, the Washington Post reported that “ n the wake of the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords ,” Shuler “ intends to arm himself more frequently ” and is “ encouraging his staff members to apply for carry permits .” On January 29, 2011, a Doonesbury cartoon made fun of Shuler's plan to carry a gun.
It was not until 1922, in the wake of the Washington Naval Treaty that curtailed ship weights and with the introduction of the British Nelson class battleships, that a true layered torpedo belt was introduced.
Many Jefferson Parish residents joined in a class action lawsuit against Broussard after he followed a years-old " doomsday plan " in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and evacuated more than 200 drainage pump operators north to Washington Parish.
On September 11, 2001, 8 civilian airliners made unscheduled landings at the Stephenville Airport following the closure of North American airspace in the wake of the terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington, DC.

wake and massive
Based on Beria's own statements, other leaders suspected that in the wake of the uprising, he might be willing to trade the reunification of Germany and the end of the Cold War for massive aid from the United States, as had been received in World War II.
The " supply of an army " would become a science of logistics in the wake of massive armies, operations and troops that could fire ammunition faster than it could be produced, for the first time using vehicles that used the combustion engine, a watershed of change.
That relief force won a surprising victory over the more experienced Spartan force in the Battle of Arginusae, but in the wake of that battle Theramenes found himself in the middle of a massive controversy.
His only knowledge of humans seems to come from television advertisements, although his skills as a physician generally vary: in " Put Your Head on My Shoulders " he manages to successfully transplant Fry's head onto Amy's body after Fry's body incurs massive trauma in a vehicular accident that requires extensive repair, but in Into the Wild Green Yonder he incorrectly declares Fry dead only for him to wake up a few seconds later.
With IBM suffering its greatest ever public humiliation in the wake of the PS / 2 disaster, massive financial losses, and a marked lack of company unity or direction, Microsoft's combination of a soft marketing voice and a big financial stick was effective: Windows became the de-facto standard.
In the G2 Marvel series ( which continues from the G1 Marvel series ), it is stated that the Decepticon forces on Cybertron underwent a massive split in the wake of Megatron's disappearance when Megatron, Optimus Prime, and their respective troops crashed on Earth.
Still, in the wake of the massive success of the album Nevermind ( also 1991 ) by Nirvana, the media and the marketing industry popularised and mass-marketed " grunge " clothes, music and such.
Music historian Richie Unterberger characterized their impact as " phenomenal popularity ", and the Kingston Trio's massive record sales in its early days made acoustic folk music commercially viable, paving the way for singer-songwriter, folk rock, and Americana artists who followed in their wake.
In its wake as of December 16, the surviving population witnessed the massive destruction of most of the state infrastructure, including the collapse of most roads, bridges, housings, public and private buildings, and of basic services as electricity and communications ; in which thousands were killed or missing.
As Charles Tripp explains “ the officers ’ power would be institutionalized in a Revolutionary Command Council, formed from the membership of the Supreme Committee organization of eleven ranking officers who helped plan the coup, and this body would wield supreme executive power in the wake of the overthrow of the monarchy .” The capture of power by the military in 1958 greatly altered the political landscape in Iraq ’ s government as military officers gained massive control over civilian and governmental affairs.
However, in the wake of World War II during the late 1940s and early 1950s, massive residential extensions at Croxteth, alongside similar and indistinguishable development of neighbouring Norris Green, resulted in what together, are now regarded as the largest municipal housing estate in Europe.
The massive number of attendees reflects the increased authority of the church in the wake of Pope Gregory VII.
The second term is because the more massive the object, the more matter will be pulled into the wake.
The fact that the " rush " of the cotton mills passed, and technology / machinery replaced lots of working people, combined with the large urbanisation, resulted in an inevitable outcome: massive unemployment, with depression and frustration in its wake.
It was in wake of these massive changes in Scotland at the time that Scottish society remained detached from a sense of Scottish national identity.
As the butterflies coalesced into one massive insect, Leo took to the air and headed back towards Desghidorah, righteous fury burning in his wake.
More advanced systems were developed in the wake of the April 1, 1946 ( caused by the 1946 Aleutian Islands earthquake ) and May 23, 1960 ( caused by the 1960 Valdivia earthquake ) tsunamis which caused massive devastation in Hilo, Hawaii < sup > source needed </ sup >.
By March 23, the protest movement had become widespread, particularly in some of the majority Uzbek southern towns, having gained momentum in the wake of allegations of massive fraud and manipulations during the elections.
As might be expected, the path taken by the ball under the influence of the myriad squads trying to seize possession was not direct ; in 1971 the ball rolled a six mile swath through downtown streets leaving massive traffic tangles in its wake, only to be trapped and deflated by police at Beinecke Plaza, a few blocks from its starting point.
The success of the ORMO attack on university students simultaneously in several major cities – in the wake of growing citizen discontent ( see Polish 1970 protests ) – prompted the Ministry to began massive expansion of its rank-and-file.
He sends a devastating beam of energy from the star Vega to Earth, which strikes the observing Hoshi, leaving massive destruction in its wake.
As the exciting fields pass through the plasma, the plasma electrons experience a massive attractive force back to the center of the wake by the positive plasma ions chamber, bubble or column that have remained positioned there, as they were originally in the unexcited plasma.
Since the distribution of seats in the House of Commons among the boroughs did not change after the 17th century, no account was taken of the massive demographic changes that took place in the wake of the industrial revolution of the 18th century.

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