1.   In June a major scandal began to emerge involving securities dealers who had made secret compensation payments to favoured clients for losses incurred through taking their advice.

2.   Last year, as the Enron scandal began to unfold, Gramm announced he would not seek re-election this year.

3.   Like many another television drama, the Clinton scandal began to feel like a perpetual rerun.

4.   Ohio is looking the hardest, because it was at the Ohio State Fair last August that the current scandal began.

5.   Since the campaign-finance scandal began, De la Calle has distanced himself from the president, which led to his posting to Madrid last year.

6.   Since the Lewinsky scandal began a year ago Thursday, the president has given almost no interviews to major American news organizations.

7.   The biggest Olympic scandal in history began in November, when allegations arose of scholarship payments made by Salt Lake organizers to family members of IOC officials.

8.   The Dallas scandals began in October, when school board member Dan Peavy became the target of secretly recorded phone conversations.

9.   The curb-side shooting was the second instance of violence since the sexual abuse scandal among priests began to mushroom this winter.

10.   The current scandal began with revelations of similar discretionary trading.