Gadsden Purchase | ... d the state's economy. Sonora lost more territory in the 1850s, through the | . Before the war, Sonora was the largest entity in Mexico, but as a result ... |
Tangentopoli | ... zed crime's considerable influence collectively called the political system | . As Tangentopoli was under a set of judicial investigations by the name o ... |
Enron | ... ews Hotels; Ellen J. Kullman, CEO of DuPont; and Andy Fastow, Former CFO of | . Other notable alumni include Michelle Kwan, Olympic medallist and World ... |
Kings Bay Affair | ... but notable John Lyng cabinet from August to September 1963, following the | that brought to an end to the uninterrupted chain of Labor governments aft ... |
Iraq leak | ... d Lipponen. This series of events was considered scandalous and it is named | or Iraq-gate. The main point was that special advisor of President of Finl ... |
Santer Commission | ... enjoy the same support and in 1999 parliament used its powers to force the | to resign |
Arthur Andersen | ... ure.It involved a financial scandal of Enron Corporation and their auditors | , which was revealed in late 2001. The scandal caused the dissolution of A ... |
Arms Crisis | ... mpathy with Haughey and Blaney. The whole affair, which became known as the | , allowed Lynch to stamp his control on his government, but would eventual ... |
Wilbur Glenn Voliva | ... mean round the world, it is impossible! You mean in the world. Impossible!" | , who in 1906 took over the Christian Catholic Church, a Pentecostal sect ... |
Rwandan Genocide | ... recent conflict in what is now the DRC stems from the turmoil following the | of 1994, which then led to the Great Lakes refugee crisis. Within the larg ... |
ExxonMobil | ... reaches a production milestone. Currently, many major oil companies such as | , Royal Dutch Shell, Nippon Oil, and Murphy Oil are involved in such contr ... |
Watergate scandal | rect 2 2 297 200 | rect 390 202 611 424 1973 oil crisis rect 192 203 386 423 Disco rect 0 203 ... |
News of the World | In May 2010, Sarah, Duchess of York was filmed by a | reporter claiming that the Duke of York had agreed that if she were to rec ... |
West African Gas Pipeline | ... of natural gas and to export natural gas to Benin, Ghana, Togo through the | , and, potentially, even to Algeria (where Mediterranean export terminals ... |
uranium Niger deal | ... d to US military action argued that insufficient and, as in the case of the | , even falsified documents might have been produced in order to show Iraq ... |
Watergate scandal | ... efore the leap is complete, making it unclear whether before Sam's leap the | had been discovered at all, or whether Sam's actions merely facilitated a ... |
2008 Chinese milk scandal | ... , as were food safety issues such as "cancer-causing mineral water." As the | broke in September 2008, there was widespread speculation that China's des ... |
Cleveland Street scandal | ... but, at that time in the U.K., sexual activity between men was a crime. The | (1889), followed by the downfall of Oscar Wilde (1895), meant that "that s ... |
Grimm-Hoffmann Affair | ... or powers respected Switzerland's neutrality during World War I, though the | did come close into calling it into question |
Pacific Scandal | ... , anxious to thwart American expansionism and facing the distraction of the | , negotiated for Prince Edward Island to join Canada. The Dominion Governm ... |
Arthur Andersen | ... sen, which was revealed in late 2001. The scandal caused the dissolution of | , which at the time was one of the five largest accounting firms in the wo ... |
expenses scandal | ... llowing his conviction on charges of false accounting in connection with an | . Before this, the last individual to be expelled from the Council against ... |
ExxonMobil | ... ermajor companies own the rights to the Standard name in the United States: | , Chevron Corporation, and BP. BP acquired its rights through acquiring St ... |
Dateline NBC | ... ermath was featured in a segment that aired on the NBC-TV newsmagazine show | on October 5, 2010. The segment was titled "The Family on Sorghum Mill Dri ... |
Oil spill | ... ation does not exist to protect dugongs, and if it does it is not enforced. | s are a danger to dugongs in some areas, as is land reclamation. In Okinaw ... |
Trans-Saharan gas pipeline | ... n to Algeria (where Mediterranean export terminals are located) by proposed | . Energy pipelines are subject to sabotage by militant groups or siphoning ... |
De Montfort University | ... and the design centre for George Clothing (Asda/Walmart) is in Lutterworth. | has, in the form of its Fashion and Contour Design course a leading design ... |
Jack Abramoff Indian lobbying scandal | ... Committee, in 1995–1997 and 2005–2007, and his Committee helped expose the | . By 2005 and 2006, McCain was pushing for amendments to the Indian Gaming ... |
Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act | ... social development, including the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, the | , the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, and the Magnuson–St ... |
ExxonMobil | ... y, was a major American oil company which merged with Exxon in 1999 to form | . Today Mobil continues as a major brand name within the combined company, ... |
Rwandan Genocide | Hundreds of thousands of people fled from the | in 1994 into neighboring countries. Thousands of refugees from deteriorati ... |
aerial bombardment | ... sorted to increasingly repressive measures. Much speculation was made about | of major cities with gas in Mesopotamia, with Winston Churchill, then-Secr ... |
Watergate scandal | ... nedy would later regret not seizing upon the Nixon plan. In the wake of the | , Kennedy pushed campaign finance reform; he was a leading force behind pa ... |
Chappaquiddick incident | ... lobotomy, the assassinations of brothers John and Robert, the controversial | , and four airplane crashes (Joe, Jr., Kathleen, Ted and John, Jr.; all bu ... |
Al-Yamamah arms deal | ... Kyrgyzstan, discussing bribery in Kyrgystan and the investigation into the | |
Massacre of Glencoe | ... ng near the Glen Coe valley is quite historic as it is near the site of the | in the 1690s, in which MacDonalds and Hendersons were killed by the Campbe ... |
Siemens-Vickers Naval Armaments scandal | ... was forced to resign with his entire cabinet to take responsibility for the | even if it was never proved that he was personally involved |
Gadsden Purchase | ... for its status as a border state since the Mexican–American War. After the | , Sorona lost more than a quarter of its territory. From the 20th century ... |
Rwandan Genocide | ... , the Tutsi army proceeded to round up thousands of Hutu and kill them. The | in 1994, sparked by the killing of Ndadaye’s successor Cyprien Ntaryamira, ... |
Santer Commission | ... in the Commission, although curbed by crises such as the resignation of the | |
bamboo pipelines | ... llation furnaces were heated by natural gas funneled to the surface through | . Dangerous amounts of additional gas were siphoned off via carburetor cha ... |
Blomberg–Fritsch Affair | In 1938 Göring was involved in the | , which led to the resignations of the War Minister, Field Marshal Werner ... |
Kings Bay | In November 1962 an accident in which several miners died occurred in the | coal mine on Spitsbergen in the Svalbard archipelago. In the aftermath, th ... |
Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior | ... he Pacific was controversial in the 1980s, in 1985 French agents caused the | in Auckland to prevent it from arriving at the test site in Moruroa. In Se ... |
ExxonMobil | ... ler, independent companies. Among the "baby Standards" that still exist are | and Chevron. Some have speculated that if not for that court ruling, Stand ... |
Matrix Churchill | ... the A. C. Wickman company. The last Coventry machine tool manufacturer was | which was forced to close in the wake of the Iraqi Supergun (Project Babyl ... |
Nortel | In contrast to | 's DMS-100 which uses individual line cards with a codec, most lines are o ... |
Watergate scandal | ... ptation of John Ehrlichman's roman a clef The Company, in turn based on the | |
Peanut Corporation of America | ... ad possibly been manufactured with Salmonella-contaminated ingredients from | . The company indicated that it had not received any reports of illness in ... |
Bongo from Congo | ... blicity about "The Norwegian House" and "36.9%", this time for the phrase " | ", originally coined as an internal joke in the Ministry of Foreign Affair ... |
Mustafa-letter | ... the issue of asylum seekers, but was additionally helped by the infamous " | ", a letter read out by Hagen during the electoral campaign that portrayed ... |
Roman Catholic sex abuse cases by country | ... in America* Criticism of Pope John Paul II* Marcial Maciel* Oliver O'Grady* | * Sexual abuse scandal in the English Benedictine Congregation* Sexual abu ... |
ExxonMobil | ... no one has ever proposed that Standard Oil be reassembled in pre-1911 form. | , however, does represent a substantial part of the original company |
Watergate scandal | ... on doing the V for Victory sign after his resignation from office after the | in 1974; Refugees aboard a US naval boat after the Fall of Saigon, leading ... |
Peterloo Massacre | ... a general disease in our society". He also opposed an enquiry into the 1819 | in which eleven protesters were killed at a political rally demanding refo ... |
Watergate scandal | ... e politics. During his subsequent presidency from 1968–1973, and during the | , Nixon maintained a home on nearby Key Biscayne known as the "Key Biscayn ... |
Gustafsen Lake | ... s occupation of a farmer's field in the Cariboo region of the province. The | siege, led by Dosanjh became the largest-scale police operation in BC hist ... |
NSA warrantless surveillance controversy | ... a federal district court in Michigan, challenging government spying in the | . On August 17, 2006, that court ruled that the warrantless wiretapping pr ... |
Keystone-Cushing Pipeline | In 2010, the | (Phase II) was constructed west of Marion, north to south through Marion C ... |
Quiz Show | ... biting suspense of a spellbinding true story”. According to Maslin, “like " | ," "Apollo 13" beautifully evokes recent history in ways that resonate str ... |
DeLorean Motor Company | DeLorean left General Motors in 1973 to form his own company, the | . A two-seater sports car prototype was shown in the mid-1970s called the ... |
ExxonMobil | In 1998, Mobil and Exxon agreed on a merger to create | , which was completed on November 30, 1999. Lou Noto was Chairman of Mobil ... |
Enron Corporation | ... undoubtedly is the biggest audit failure.It involved a financial scandal of | and their auditors Arthur Andersen, which was revealed in late 2001. The s ... |
Goldenberg scandal | ... 990s, evidence of Moi's involvement in human rights abuses and corruption ( | ) was uncovered. He was constitutionally barred from running in the 2002 e ... |
Exercise Armageddon | ... ention, and Lynch took no such action, though he commissioned a study named | . As the violence continued, the Minister for External Affairs, Patrick Hi ... |
rape | ... e controversy was heightened by the fact that Zuma was himself acquitted of | in May 2006. In February 2009, the South African Broadcasting Corporation, ... |
ExxonMobil | ... , Braskem, Celanese/Ticona, Degussa, Dow, DuPont, Eastman Chemical Company, | , Givaudan, INEOS, Mitsubishi, PPG Industries, SABIC, Shell, and Wanhua al ... |
COINTELPRO | ... l out with each other over the necessity of armed struggle as a response to | and other actions by the government against the Black Panthers and other r ... |
DeLorean Motor Company | ... not possible (or not wanted), for instance on typewritten documents of the | , the use of a space is correct. This appears to have been the company's c ... |
Keating Five | ... ng the 1980s as one of five United States Senators comprising the so-called | . Between 1982 and 1987, McCain had received $112,000 in lawful political ... |
Dreyfus affair | ... ation of the Jews in Europe. He also supported Émile Zola's position in the | |
Air Mail scandal | ... s under Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown, an inquiry which led to the | . In order to correct what he termed abuses of "fraud and collusion" resul ... |
ExxonMobil | ... on and Development (IBRD). The parastatal is now expected to be privatised. | leads a consortium of Chevron and Petronas that has invested $3.7 billion ... |
pipelines | Thermodynamic conditions favouring hydrate formation are often found in | . This is highly undesirable because the clathrate crystals might agglomer ... |
De Montfort University | ... prior to a merger with the University of Luton in 2006 had been a campus of | (itself now solely based in Leicester). For further education, the town is ... |
Arthur Andersen | ... of financial information frauds involving Enron Corporation, auditing firm | , the telecommunications company WorldCom, Qwest and Sunbeam, among other ... |
ExxonMobil | ... in Morris County. These include AT&T, Honeywell, Colgate-Palmolive, Pfizer, | , Novartis, BASF, Verizon, Bayer and Wyeth. Major industries include finan ... |
Roman Catholic sex abuse cases by country | ... abuse by clergy have been subjects of public debate in many countries (see | ). After the United States, the country with the next highest number of re ... |
Enron | ... is owned by Rosebud Energy Corp., a partnership that at one point included | . The plant uses high sulfur waste coal from the Rosebud Coal Mine's topmo ... |
Bingogate | ... of an ongoing investigation of illegal use of charity bingo money, coined " | " by the media, by former provincial cabinet minister and member of parlia ... |
Minamata disease | ... ercury poisoning in humans occurred this way in Minamata, Japan, now called | |
Recruit scandal | ... alesced during Tanaka's convalescence. After Takeshita was sidelined by the | , the Tanaka faction rallied behind Ryutaro Hashimoto, who led the Tanaka ... |
Waste Management, Inc | ... tiful, received a grant in 2008 of $10,000 for beautification projects from | |
News of the World | In an exclusive interview on 27 August 2007 with the | , journalists were given access to Wisdom's room at the home. He claimed t ... |
Equitable Life | In April 2004, | , a UK life assurance company, sued EY after nearly collapsing following a ... |
Pacific Scandal | ... mable Jetté while seeking a second term in Montreal East in the face of the | . The following month Cartier was acclaimed the victor in the Manitoba rid ... |
Keating Five | ... exonerated in a political influence scandal of the 1980s as a member of the | , he made campaign finance reform one of his signature concerns, which eve ... |
Attorney General v. X | ... nt, could leave Ireland for an abortion that is lawful in another country ( | , known as the 'X Case'). The Supreme Court interpreted the Pro-Life Amend ... |
Gas Transmission Northwest | ... ission corridor. Near Malin is the Malin interconnect, where the Tuscarora, | and Pacific Gas & Electric gas pipelines currently connect, as will the Ru ... |
ExxonMobil | Mobil 1, the successor to the Mobiloil brand, is a brand name of | . It was introduced in 1974 as a Multi-grade 5W20 viscosity synthetic moto ... |
Pipeline Debate | ... was also perceived to have grown too close to business interests. The 1956 | led to the widespread impression that the Liberals had grown arrogant in p ... |
ExxonMobil | ... tion-sharing agreement contracts involving international oil companies like | and Shell |
Exxon | ... elations were soured by the granting of oil drilling rights to the American | company in 1999 |
the defection of a Soviet official | ... ikely to return to power. The Prime Minister, Robert Menzies, adroitly used | to his advantage, and his coalition of the Liberal and Country parties was ... |
Clearstream | ... pen Internet. Eight financial institutions, including HSBC, FirstRand Bank, | , DnB NOR, Nedbank, Standard Bank of South Africa and Bear Stearns, as wel ... |
Lockheed bribery scandals | ... r having Japan's parastatal airlines purchase Lockheed L-1011 aircraft (the | ). Although Henry Kissinger tried to stop the details from making their wa ... |
Watergate scandal | ... n political scandals, which many voters found attractive in the wake of the | , which had led to President Richard Nixon's resignation. Ford, although p ... |
Watergate scandal | ... ongside Michelle Williams. The film is a parody retelling the events of the | which lead to the resignation of U.S. president Richard Nixon |
My Lai Massacre | ... to limit further increases in US troop numbers in Vietnam. When news of the | broke, Westmoreland resisted pressure from the Nixon administration for a ... |
Watergate scandal | ... 1976 followed the resignation of President Richard Nixon in the wake of the | . It favored the relatively unknown former governor of Georgia, Jimmy Cart ... |
De Montfort University | ... trial connections with the engineering departments at Leicester University, | , and Loughborough University. The and are both based at Loughborough Univ ... |
Jallianwala Bagh massacre | ... d to British attacks on demonstrators, culminating on 13 April 1919, in the | (also known as the Amritsar Massacre) in Amritsar, Punjab. The British mil ... |
Dateline NBC | In 2004, | featured a critical report based on a yearlong undercover investgation of ... |
Watergate scandal | In the fall of 1974, Nixon resigned under the pressure of the | and was succeeded by Gerald Ford. With the war growing incredibly unpopula ... |
USS Liberty incident | ... on to the enemy action rule, receiving his medal for his actions during the | |
Enron scandal | ... ion to being the largest bankruptcy reorganization in American history, the | undoubtedly is the biggest audit failure.It involved a financial scandal o ... |
De Montfort University | ... hree universities, the University of Leicester, Loughborough University and | |
Enron scandal | ... e is under scrutiny following the corporate climate in the aftermath of the | . This has resulted in divestitures in the consulting divisions by many ac ... |
Enron scandal | The | deeply influenced the development of new regulations to improve the reliab ... |
DeLorean Motor Company | ... . automobile industry, most notably with General Motors, and founder of the | |
Teapot Dome scandal | ... Hoover were resoundingly elected in 1920, 1924, and 1928 respectively. The | threatened to hurt the party but Harding died and Coolidge blamed everythi ... |
domestic wiretapping program | ... d executive authority to enact, in the case of the National Security Agency | |
Appin Murder | ... mes of the Glens - who has been arrested and charged with complicity in the | . David makes a statement to a lawyer, and goes on to meet Lord Prestongra ... |
Arthur Andersen | In 2002 EY merged with many of the ex- | practices around the world, although not those in the UK, China or the Net ... |
Chappaquiddick incident | ... 1964 and was reelected seven more times before his death. The controversial | on July 18, 1969, resulted in the death of his automobile passenger Mary J ... |
gas pipelines | ... tes cause problems for the petroleum industry, because they can form inside | often resulting in plug formation. Deep sea deposition of carbon dioxide c ... |
Pentagon Papers | ... es Co. v. United States (1971), he voted to allow newspapers to publish the | despite the Nixon Administration's contention that publication would have ... |
Santer Commission | ... happening in 1999 due to allegations of financial mismanagement led to the | resigning on its own accord, before the Parliament forced them out |
1960 U-2 incident | ... antage of possibly being intercepted by aircraft or missiles such as in the | |
Anglo Irish Bank hidden loans controversy | In January 2009, in the | , EY was criticised by politicians and the shareholders of Anglo Irish Ban ... |
Watergate scandal | ... Director William Colby, and White House Chief of Staff Alexander Haig. The | had reached its apex, and Nixon was so agitated and discomposed that they ... |
Watergate scandal | ... rry Brown, as the favorites for the nomination. However, in the wake of the | , Carter realized that his status as a Washington outsider, political cent ... |
Groupaction | ... shortly after raising concerns about the company's dealings with advertiser | . Responses to her allegations led to the firings a few days later of Via ... |
Watergate scandal | In non-fiction, several books related to Nixon and the | topped the best-selling lists. 1977 brought many high-profile biographical ... |
1960 U-2 incident | ... ch activists wanted. Eisenhower was also criticized for his handling of the | and the international embarrassment, the Soviet Union's perceived leadersh ... |