Sentences with phrase «scandals of the last few years»

«The scandals of the last few years have shown that incremental steps are not enough,» said Daniel R. Alonso, a former federal prosecutor who recently served as Manhattan Chief Assistant District Attorney.

After the turmoil created by the Takata airbag scandal of the last few years, it is not at all surprising to see car manufacturers tread extremely lightly around the issue of malfunctioning airbags.

Since all of the accounting scandals of the last few years, many corporations have cleaned up their accounting and become more conservative.

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Examples from the last few years include the subprime mortgage crisis; the failure of the Peanut Corporation of America; the 2007 pet food scandal; lead paint on children's toys in 2007; melamine - laced Chinese milk products; contaminants in the drug Heparin; and dioxin - contaminated Irish pork.

Kearns was one of the more vocal critics during Silver's last few years as Speaker and left the Democratic Conference to protest the handling of the Vito Lopez scandal.

In the last few years New Yorkers have seen scandals engulf a governor, a Comptroller, Senate leaders, and now the long - time leader of the Assembly.

In the last few months of 2017 (which saw female - led movies top the year - end box office and female stories dominate the Emmys), the entertainment world was rocked by scandal, starting with the revelations about Harvey Weinstein, which were followed by accusations against executives, longtime actors and some of the industry's most powerful men.

«I've never seen so many cheating scandals as there have been in the last few years,» said Diane Ravitch, a New York University education historian and former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education under Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton.

Many of the events in the corporate scandals investigated in the last few years came from events in the 1990s.

Worldwide Operation — There is no getting away from the fact that HSBC are a huge international business and as such they have the size to ride out any storms on the banking world, which they have been doing with some level of success over the last few years, they are slowly getting back on track and unless any other major scandals emerge then it may be plain sailing for HSBC and they should return to profitability over the long term in no time at all.

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In the wake of the recent Battlefront II scandal, consumers have called into question many of the practices seen in video games over the last few years, specifically concepts in games that try to get the most money out of consumers as possible.

On Thursday, February 9, 2012 the federal government and 49 states entered into a settlement dealing with the mortgage servicing issues emanating from the foreclosure crisis of the last few years including the «robo - signing» scandal.