Word: embarrassement
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Living with the truth, never an easy task, presents unusual moral dilemmas for investigative reporters as well as presidents. The reporter's entire occupational orientation compels him to make public all the information that can be unearthed. Ordinarily such disclosures merely embarrass public figures, but occasionally the release of certain information could endanger the national security. In such instances, the reporter must weigh the risks of exposing sensitive information against his professional obligation to report all that he knows...
...Leaking is a form of whistle-blowing," Schorr explained. People leak information that will embarrass public figures, or implicate them in crimes or scandals; they do not expose "atomic secrets." "The real secrets are pretty goddamn well kept," Schorr insisted...
...Glos manifesto is bound to embarrass and anger the regime of Party Chief Edward Gierek. Still, it seemed unlikely that the government would crack down on the signers so close to President Carter's scheduled visit to Warsaw in December. In Poland, such a move would only precipitate more protest...
...said the SEC, were well aware of the metropolis' financial shakiness. Yet they cooked city books to conceal the danger and issued reports that failed to reveal the true picture. Beame's immediate response was to call the report a "shameless, vicious, political document," deliberately timed to embarrass him and full of "intemperate charges and conclusions." The next day Beame again struck out at the SEC, but added the banks to his hit list. "For more than a year," he said, "the SEC withheld and covered up the fact that the banks secretly dumped city securities from their...
...Brezhnev's decision to pay an unscheduled visit to Jacques Chirac, mayor of Paris and Giscard's Gaullist archrival. Rather pettily, Giscard had planned to ignore Chirac, but the cunning mayor wrote Brezhnev asking him to stop by. Brezhnev was only too happy to accommodate Chirac, embarrass Giscard and do a little meddling in French politics. Gaullist officials gleefully celebrated their political victory. "The principle has been established." crowed one. "Now Chirac will see every visiting chief of state...