Word: embarrassement
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...most important thing for us was that Robin and I were free to make our own rules," wrote Lehrer in his book A Bus of My Own. "We would not beat up on our guests or embarrass them." The two anchors forged a complementary partnership -- MacNeil with his clipped, analytical style, Lehrer with his folksy Texas drawl -- but there are important differences. Says longtime NewsHour correspondent Charlayne Hunter-Gault: Lehrer is like a "Marine drill sergeant"; MacNeil is like a "symphony conductor...
...keeping negotiations going despite violence between the parties. U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher joined in pressuring Arafat, not only in the name of peace but for the sake of an American life. Arafat was motivated himself by a sense that the hostage taking was intended by Hamas to embarrass...
...activists were still able to "embarrass the federal government" into instilling radical change, he said...
...Serbian economy, says Graff.Can Milosevic be trusted? According to TIME's Graff, Western military sources in Central Bosnia claim to have evidence of substantial numbers of regular troops from Serbia operating in Bosnia -- something that was supposed to have stopped over two years ago. The report, if true, would embarrass all parties: Milosevic and the Serbs would be exposed as hypocrites, and the U.N., which was ordered to stop such incursions, would once again appear ineffective...
...chance was very real that Fiske was going to say no laws were broken ((a forecast that has proved precisely accurate)) and that we would hold a hearing that would be a big nothing." New York Senator Alfonse D'Amato, however, argued that Republicans should grab any opportunity to embarrass the Administration...