Word: misconduct
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...icemen had entered the second period with a 2-1 lead but two defensemen--Scott Powers (high sticking) and Mitch Olsen (10-minute misconduct)--in the penalty box. The minor proved costly moments later when Rick Wilson evened the score just as the penalty expired...
...point was not in dispute: the badly battered reputation of Congress, tarnished by numerous recent cases of individual misconduct, had been dealt a major blow. "The institution has been hurt," conceded House Speaker Tip O'Neill. "I'm very disappointed, discouraged and shocked," said Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd. "I'm sick," declared Congressman Robert F. Drinan, who served on the Judiciary Committee that had voted in 1974 to impeach Richard Nixon. The actions of that committee were so impressive that 48% of Americans, according to a Gallup poll at the time, said that they approved...
July 1976. Representative Robert Sikes, 73, Florida Democrat, was reprimanded by his colleagues for "financial misconduct" involving conflict of interest...
Particularly disturbing is Carter's call to exempt the Central Intelligence Agency from some provisions of the (1974) Freedom of Information Act, to allow citizens to request information only about themselves. Revelations of CIA misconduct have come not from such personal inquiries but from the general requests the act permits, and without them the public will be even less able to find out whether its intelligence agencies are obeying...
...fired as Watergate special prosecutor during the "Saturday Night Massacre" in 1973. He had refused to cease investigation allegations of misconduct in the Nixon Administration...