11.   He also mentioned the E. Coli bacteria food poisoning epidemic, corruption scandals involving bureaucrats and the debate over reducing the U.S. military presence on Okinawa.

12.   If the scandals had involved athletes, sponsors might have reason to fear a fan backlash and a drop-off in TV viewership.

13.   In many parts of the world, political scandals involve murder and brutality.

14.   It is true that this particular sex scandal also involves allegations that Clinton urged his alleged sex partner to lie under oath.

15.   Japanese stocks fell, led by banks, amid concern that a scandal involving payoffs to a corporate racketeer may be industry wide.

16.   Nor has an insider-trading scandal involving a friend of President Joseph Estrada.

17.   Of particular importance in this case was a series of actions and decisions reached years ago, in another accounting scandal involving an Andersen client named Waste Management.

18.   Other scandals have involved awarding public housing contracts to party supporters.

19.   Or sex scandals involving assertions of perjury, obstruction of justice and abuse of power?

20.   That scandal also involved improper payments to clients, some of which were linked with criminal groups.