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From 1992 to 1997, Italy faced significant challenges, as voters, disenchanted with past political paralysis, massive government debt, extensive corruption, and organized crime's considerable influence — collectively called Tangentopoli after being uncovered by Mani pulite — demanded political, economic, and ethical reforms.
During the 1990s, evidence of Moi's involvement in human rights abuses and corruption ( Goldenberg scandal ) was uncovered.
Shortly after his re-election to the mayoralty in 1949, O ' Dwyer was confronted with a police corruption scandal uncovered by the Kings County District Attorney, Miles McDonald.
Also in this session, Garfield and John Coburn uncovered corruption in the Post Tradership Office at Fort Sill — control of supplies had been monopolized, with overpricing occurring.
In 1999, the largest corruption scandal in China's history was uncovered in Xiamen, implicating up to 200 government officials.
In 2009, investigators of the Munich Prosecution Department uncovered a corruption affair, in which MAN has been corrupting business partners and governments in over 20 countries during the years 2001 to 2007 to get large orders for buses and trucks.
The corruption scandal was uncovered by Norwegian paper Dagens Næringsliv on 3 September 2003.
One of the biggest urban scandals of the post-Civil War era was the corruption and bribery case of Tammany boss William M. Tweed in 1871 that was uncovered by newspapers.
The corruption system that was uncovered by these investigations was usually referred to as Tangentopoli, or " bribesville ".
Insisting that all who testify before his committee do so under oath, thus exposing them to perjury charges if they did not tell the truth, he and his committee have uncovered numerous instances of corruption and waste, such as the use of $ 600 toilet seats at the Pentagon.
Since his tenure as mayor Perez has come under fire for alleged corruption, reported and uncovered by The Hartford Courant and reporters Daniel E. Goren and Jeffrey B. Cohen.
While in his first term as Governor, Meyner uncovered Employment Security Division Director ( and former governor ) Harold G. Hoffman's massive corruption scam, and suspended Hoffman on March 18, 1954.
This was well publicised in the local newspaper, which constantly uncovered what it believed to be corruption between Councillors and businesses plus clique groups within the elected council.
In 1926, Stevens led an investigation into the King government's handling of customs which uncovered evidence of corruption that forced the resignation of King's minority government and Governor General Byng's controversial decision to ask the Conservatives under Meighen to form a government rather than call an election.
Attorney Anne Kajir uncovered evidence of widespread corruption and complicity in the Papua New Guinea government that allowed rampant, illegal logging that is destroying the largest remaining intact block of tropical forest in the Asia Pacific region In 1997, her first year practicing law, Kajir successfully defended a precedent-setting appeal in the Supreme Court of Papua New Guinea that forced the logging interests to pay damages to indigenous land owners.
He was finally assigned to work plainclothes, where he uncovered widespread corruption.
Alternatively, the Tranmere Rovers's club historian Gilbert Upton uncovered evidence that the name ' Dixie ' could be a corruption of his childhood nickname, Digsy – acquired from his approach to the children's game of tag, where Dean would dig his fist into the girl's back, hence ' Digsy '.
From 1992 to 1997, Italy faced significant challenges as voters ( disenchanted with past political paralysis, massive government debt, extensive corruption, and organized crime's considerable influence collectively called Tangentopoli after being uncovered by Mani pulite-" Clean hands ") demanded political, economic, and ethical reforms.
In the process, the show also uncovered many of South Africa's most famous scandals of human rights abuse, corruption and consumer affairs.
Several local " crime commissions " in major cities and states had also uncovered extensive corruption of the political process by organized crime.
As a consequence, Grillo was effectively and silently banished from publicly owned television ; yet, he was vindicated a few years later when the Italian Socialist Party had to be disbanded in a welter of corruption scandals known as Tangentopoli, uncovered by the Mani pulite investigation.
Ossias had uncovered evidence of corruption while heading a team of staff lawyers reviewing the insurance company files reflecting claims handling practices following the 1994 Northridge earthquake.
Time Out Film Guide praises the realistic look and feel of the city, " Rarely has the cruel, lived-in squalor of the city been presented in such telling detail, both in the vivid portrayal of ghetto life and in the astonishing parade of corruption uncovered in the night ( a slug-like shyster ; a monstrous, sadistic masseuse ; a sleazy refugee abortionist, etc ).
In the 1994 general contracting ( zenekon ) scandal, corruption was uncovered among bureaucrats associated with building contractors, leading to the jailing of high-ranking politician Shin Kanemaru for tax evasion.

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What we know about Mesopotamian religion comes from archaeological evidence uncovered in the region, particularly literary sources, which are usually written in cuneiform on clay tablets and which describe both mythology and cultic practices.
Many of the practices uncovered by Bannatyne appeared to break BAT's own code of conduct and company standards.
* 1996: The Orange County Register staff, " for reporting that uncovered fraudulent and unethical fertility practices at a leading research university hospital and prompted key regulatory reforms.
These missions uncovered an array of defects in the justice systems of the countries visited, including arbitrary or abusive laws, unlawful practices, co-opted judges, defective trial procedures, secret detentions, and abusive security forces.
For reporting that uncovered fraudulent and unethical fertility practices at a leading research university hospital and prompted key regulatory reforms.
Another aspect of the scandal was uncovered during the California Senate Insurance oversight committee's investigation: this involved a scheme whereby fraudulent other settlements were entered into between the CDI and insurers who had committed unfair claim and business practices, and these and the earthquake settlement monies were placed in foundations created by Quackenbush and top aides in order to fund projects for personal financial gain and political advancement.

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It was a sort of poetic justice that at the time of his own demise a new plot to overthrow the Venezuelan government, reportedly involving the use of Dominican arms by former Venezuelan Dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez, has been uncovered and quashed.
His verses have not come down to us through a manuscript tradition-generations of scribes copying an author's collected works, such as delivered intact into the modern age four entire books of Pindar's odes-but haphazardly, in quotes from ancient scholars and commentators whose own works have chanced to survive, and in the tattered remnants of papyri uncovered from an ancient rubbish pile at Oxyrhynchus and other locations in Egypt: sources that modern scholars have studied and correlated exhaustively, adding little by little to the world's store of poetic fragments.
Archaeology has uncovered remains at the site dating to approximately 3000 BC.
Archaeological confirmation of Bethlehem as an Israelite city was uncovered in 2012 at the archaeological dig at the City of David in the form of a bulla ( seal impression in dried clay ) in ancient Hebrew script that reads " From the town of Bethlehem to the King ," indicating that it was used to seal the string closing a shipment of grain, wine, or other goods sent as a tax payment in the 8th or 7th century BCE.
Roman remains have also been uncovered at the site.
Evidence that curling existed in Scotland in the early 16th century includes a curling stone inscribed with the date 1511 ( uncovered along with another bearing the date 1551 ) when an old pond was drained at Dunblane, Scotland.
In 2008, archaeologists working at the site of Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of Siberia uncovered a small bone fragment from the fifth finger of a juvenile member of a population now referred to as Denisova hominins, or simply Denisovans.
Prior to Gardner's investigations, no serious archaeological excavation had occurred at the city, though he himself soon unearthed four miles of earthworks, and uncovered finds that included tombs, pottery, and porcelain dating from Ming China.
In 1887, excavations at Tell El-Amarna in Egypt uncovered the diplomatic correspondence of Pharaoh Amenhotep III and his son Akhenaton.
Sayce's identification came to be widely accepted over the course of the early 20th century ; and the name " Hittite " has become attached to the civilization uncovered at Boğazköy.
In 1972, Professor William Calder of the University of Colorado, speaking at a commemoration of Schliemann's birthday, claimed that he had uncovered several possible problems in Schliemann's work.
The beach is mainly shingle, although wide areas of sand are uncovered at low tide.
Further Homo erectus fossils of a similar age were found at Sangiran in the 1930 ` s by the anthropologist Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald, who in the same time period also uncovered fossils at Ngandong alongside more advanced tools, re-dated in 2011 to between 550, 000 and 143, 000 years old.
In Crete, at the city of Dreros, Spyridon Marinatos uncovered an eighth-century post-Minoan hearth house temple in which there were found three unique figures of Apollo, Artemis and Leto made of brass sheeting hammered over a shaped core ( sphyrelata ).
In the 1970s a stone meteorite was uncovered during an archaeological dig at Danebury Iron Age hillfort, Danebury England.
Archeologists at the Risby Warren V site in Lincolnshire have uncovered a row of eight triangular microliths that are equidistantly aligned along a dark stain indicating organic remains ( possibly the wood from an arrow shaft ).
Archaeologist Yigael Yadin's excavations uncovered the skeletal remains of 28 people at Masada.
Bagatti uncovered pottery dating from the Middle Bronze Age ( 2200 to 1500 BC ) and ceramics, silos and grinding mills from the Iron Age ( 1500 to 586 BC ) which indicated substantial settlement in the Nazareth basin at that time.
* 1962 – Spiegel scandal: Der Spiegel publishes the article " Bedingt abwehrbereit " (" Conditionally prepared for defense ") about a NATO manoeuver called " Fallex 62 ", which uncovered the sorry state of the Bundeswehr ( Germany's army ) facing the communist threat from the east at the time.
Archaeological excavations have uncovered clove burnt onto the floor of a kitchen, dated to 1700 BCE, at the Mesopotamian site of Terqa, in modern-day Syria.
Yigael Yadin's excavations at Hazor, Megiddo, Beit Shean and Gezer uncovered structures that he and others have argued date from his reign, but others, such as Israel Finkelstein and Neil Silberman, argue that they should be dated to the Omride period, more than a century after Solomon.
But during World War II, IBM subsidiaries in occupied Europe never stopped delivery of punch cards to Dehomag, and documents uncovered show that senior executives at IBM world headquarters in New York took great pains to maintain legal authority over Dehomag's operations and assets through the personal intervention of IBM managers in neutral Switzerland, directed via personal communications and private letters.

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