11.   And why does the press act as if there may be a major scandal brewing?

12.   And, there were no major personal scandals involving him or people in his administration.

13.   A porn king like Larry Flynt is as likely to dredge up a major political scandal as a senior Washington reporter.

14.   A sudden dismissal of a top executive is rare on Wall Street and usually occurs only after a firm is caught in a major scandal.

15.   But on the other hand, Americans are in no mood for another major scandal on Capitol Hill.

16.   Charges that a Haitian immigrant was severely beaten and sodomized by police officers in a Brooklyn station house are erupting into a major scandal.

17.   Galina Brezhnev was never involved in politics but she figured in some major scandals in the last years of Soviet power.

18.   Glenn will have time to examine likely Republican finance misdeeds, but the national need is to dig deeply into the major scandal at the center of power.

19.   He, too, was untouched by any major scandal.

20.   If anything, Denman said, it is extraordinary that there has not een a major scandal before.