81.   The scandal broke in March when Nomura called a surprise press conference to say it had paid a favored customer, later identified as Ryuichi Koike.

82.   The scandal broke last October when two midshipmen were caught in a sting operation, selling LSD.

83.   The scandal broke just as the economy was showing signs of a recovery.

84.   The scandal broke when he was president, the most powerful executive in a Japanese company.

85.   The scandal broke in March when Nomura called a surprise press conference to say it had made payments to a favored customer, later identified as Ryuichi Koike.

86.   The Teapot Dome scandal broke during the Calvin Coolidge presidency but was a creature of the Warren G. Harding administration.

87.   Then the scandal broke in the press.

88.   There has been much speculation inside the ruling party, as well as in the private sector, about why the scandals are breaking one after the other.

89.   Then, the new book scandal broke.

90.   This went on the air just as the Monica Lewinsky scandal was breaking and many Democrats were starting to treat the president as though he had a communicable disease.