31.   So that combination of inertia, politics and absence of major scandal keep us at the craps table, and we keep rolling that dice.

32.   The Gruttadauria saga is emerging as the first major scandal of the political year.

33.   The first major scandal for the XFL happened in the second week.

34.   The new rule book could come back to haunt them, they say, as a prosecutorial exhibit with the first major scandal of poor enforcement or student injury.

35.   The noxious practice of buckraking has been a major journalistic scandal.

36.   The two men caused the first major scandal of the Cellucci administration after they were photographed by The Boston Herald drinking beer and champagne with women dressed in beachwear.

37.   Then, as now, the nation was numbed by a major scandal.

38.   This is a result of a combination of inertia, politics and absence of major scandal.

39.   Though there have been many allegations of bill padding and other minor frauds, no major scandals involving relief money have erupted so far.

40.   Unfortunately for Andersen, the last major auditing scandal, in the eyes of regulators, was one that involved the same firm.