Word: embarrassed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that start at about $90,000 and can climb well over $500,000 for those who excel, they could afford to dress with the flash of yesterday's gunslingers. Most don't. An atypical Merrill Lynch computer jock keeps a 360-hp speedboat in Westport, Connecticut. This appears to embarrass him, and he blusters, "That's not who I am, and if you don't tell me right now that you're not going to put it in the article, I'm going to have to get serious and call our public relations people and have them call TIME...
...craft a concrete proposal, the Democratic members of the House Subcommittee on Health have been slaving late nights for two months. But before the panel's four Republicans would let their objections go down to defeat, they staged a bit of theater last Wednesday that was pointedly designed to embarrass President Clinton. Calling for a formal vote on the White House plan, the Republicans each voted nay. The seven Democrats, as unwilling to join the mutiny as they were uneager to embrace Clinton's expensive proposal, were forced to vote "present...
That could easily happen now that Beijing is in the midst of a pre-emptive crackdown on anyone who it deems is out to embarrass China. It is almost routine for security police to take leading activists out of circulation when high-visibility political events are scheduled, and last week there were two of them: the opening of the NPC and Christopher's arrival. During the Secretary of State's visit, the Chinese posted uniformed and plainclothes police around the homes of dissidents and their sympathizers...
...would like it when people got out of anEnglish major that they would not embarrass you,"Vendler says...
...while Lakian and Romney may share anoccupation and an opposition to Kennedy, they arefar from two peas in the proverbial pod. Lakian ispro-choice, while Romney opposes abortion. And TheBoston Globe reported yesterday that a top Lakianaide tried to embarrass Romney by recruitingRomney former sister-in-law to campaign forLakian...