Word: embarrassed
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...lifting of age restrictions on travel abroad. Currently, only older Cubans (men over 45, women over 40) are allowed to visit relatives in the U.S. The State Department knows it will be flooded with ; requests for tourist visas if the age limit is lifted. "The Cubans are trying to embarrass us," grouses one official. The U.S. suspects that the dictator plans to repeat the 1980 Mariel boatlift, in which he exported malcontents and hardened criminals to southern Florida. "We've been on the blacklist because we don't allow free travel," responds a Havana policymaker. "Now we are doing what...
...will have no choice but to embarrass you some more. We will have no choice but to smear your name in the disgusting truth that you have created...
Pritchett's dilemma is this: He suspects that a wiley student--perhaps a disgruntled Review staffer--sabatoged the paper's computer system in order to embarrass its editors. But given the Review's history of outlandish behavior, who'd believe...
...take-no-prisoners document designed to embarrass Republicans, and some Senate Democrats would have loved to embrace it. But George Bush, burdened by his many flip-flops, promised to veto any such bill. White House officials privately conceded that the veto threat was mostly bluff: Bush could not afford to shut down the government again. Still the gambit worked on Senate Democratic Leader George Mitchell, who joined his G.O.P. counterpart, Robert Dole, to fight off amendments from left and right...
...dancers' defections have touched off propaganda attacks by rival Cambodian political factions. Sponsors of the 36-member troupe have accused enemies of the communist government of Hun Sen of intimidating the dancers with death threats and pressuring them to defect in order to embarrass Phnom Penh. A spokesman for Prince Sihanouk denied the charges and in turn accused Hun Sen of exploiting the dancers to polish his regime's image...