Word: misbehavior
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...stories appeared before Nov. 3, Packwood might well have lost his costly ($7.8 million) re-election battle against Democrat Les AuCoin. A previous challenger for Packwood's seat, former state supreme court justice Betty Roberts, derided the implication that alcohol had caused the Senator's misbehavior as "an insult to the victims and the voters of Oregon. I think the only proper step for him to take now is to resign." Oregon Democrats were organizing a recall effort, even though legal experts say the state's law on $ recall does not apply to members of Congress...
...Every time George Bush conjures up the triumph of Desert Storm, a nasty fact bedevils him: the tyrant still holds vicious sway in Baghdad. There's no question the President would like to show Saddam that there are limits to his misbehavior, and last week he looked like he was about to teach him that lesson. First came a New York Times story that claimed Bush planned to provoke a confrontation over weapons inspections, a confrontation exquisitely timed to take place while the Republicans met in Houston. The idea was for a U.N. team in Baghdad to show...
Bush wants to show there are limits to Saddam's misbehavior...
...Certainly there must be some level of misbehavior by students that is sufficiently either cruel or contemptible to raise questions about our certification of the individuals involved as potential members of the bar," Kennedy wrote. "This case raises questions about what these standards are and the extent to which they have been violated...
...thinks the information is politically relevant, but whether he thinks it would be politically relevant to a significant number of voters. Obviously this isn't an exact science. My own sense is that the current line is somewhere between a dalliance or two many years ago and more energetic misbehavior recently. More forthright testing of that line might produce some pleasant surprises for those journalists who fear that their fellow citizens are too prudish for the country's good. At the least, it would force the citizenry to decide how much they really care about a candidate's sexual history...