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The suffix-gate derives from the Watergate scandal in the United States in the early 1970s, which resulted in the resignation of US President Richard Nixon. [2] The scandal was named after the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C., where the burglary giving rise to the scandal took place; the complex itself was named after the "Water Gate" area where symphony orchestra concerts were staged on ...
The Watergate scandal left such an impression on the national and international consciousness that many scandals since then have been labeled with the "-gate suffix". One of a variety of anti-Ford buttons generated during the 1976 presidential election: it reads "Gerald ... Pardon me!" and depicts a thief cracking a safe labeled "Watergate".
Elsagate (derived from Elsa and the -gate scandal suffix) is a controversy surrounding videos on YouTube and YouTube Kids that were labelled as "child-friendly" but contained themes inappropriate for children. These videos often featured fictional characters from family-oriented media, sometimes via crossovers, used without legal permission.
The league spent two years and about $22 million to prosecute the scandal, aided by issuing inaccurate, but damning, leaks to the media that wrecked Brady's and the Patriots' ability to defend ...
Vacunagate (from vacuna (the Spanish word for "vaccine") and the suffix -gate; translatable into English as Vaccinegate) refers to a scandal in Peru over the secret COVID-19 vaccination of 487 people, mainly senior officials of the Executive Power of Peru.
He became convinced that the “Russia Gate scandal” offered a “glimpse into how the government gangsters in the FBI operate, using methods of entrapment and extortion that would make the ...
Debategate or briefing-gate was a political scandal affecting the administration of Ronald Reagan; it took place in the final days of the 1980 presidential election.Reagan's team acquired President Jimmy Carter's briefing papers, classified top secret, [1] that Carter used in preparation for the October 28, 1980 debate with Reagan.
Kemi Badenoch said the Government should not have criminalised ‘everyday activities’ during the Covid pandemic.