Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crippled because of its own stupidity and highhandedness. That we suffer an intelligence gap is its fault, not the fault of those who reacted to scandal and are understandably mistrustful of its "Trust us-just one more time...
...Ordeal by Scandal Jeremy Thorpe, facing possible life sentence, goes on trial
...network did not have enough to fret about, NBC has been trying since November to clear up a scandal that had been winked at for years, according to some NBC insiders. Under investigation are expense-account fraud and the embezzlement of hundreds of thousands of dollars by some NBC unit managers, who handle logistics for news, sports, and entertainment crews on location. So far 18 of the 55 unit managers, including their autocratic supervisor, Vice President Stephen Weston, have lost their jobs, and one has pleaded guilty to criminal charges...
...first jobs undertaken by Jane Cahill Pfeiffer when she arrived last fall as NBC's new chairman, Silverman's second in command, was to get to the bottom of the scandal. The former IBM vice president has also stepped on toes trying to straighten out the network's tangled management structure. Said one executive: "She has a Mother Superior complex." Chipped in another: "I understand that at IBM they don't fire people, they just reorganize in such a way as to drive someone out. That is exactly what is going on here...
...critics do not seem to have ruffled Pfeiffer. "The pressure doesn't get to me," she insists. Somewhat defensively, she also says of her role in handling the unit managers' scandal, "I'm not the avenging angel. I'm not Joan of Arc." Her edgy employees would probably accept those statements. Trouble is, they are not quite sure yet just...