Word: embarrassement
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...Last week it denied journalists access to an area of eastern Croatia that was devastated by Serbs two years ago and is now ostensibly under U.N. control. Said a top unprofor officer: "We have a gentlemen's agreement with the Serbs. We promised not to show things that might embarrass them to journalists." Because they thought it might inflame local passions, unprofor also withheld from reporters a videotape made by U.N. troops showing Bosnian Croat tanks destroying the 16th century Stari Most bridge at Mostar...
...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...
...OFTEN, THE DEEDS OF DIPLOmacy are cloaked in riddles -- especially when their results are likely to embarrass or anger. Jetting back from his recent trip to the countries of the former Soviet Union, U.S. Defense Secretary William Perry trumpeted the Clinton Administration's continuing success in weaning Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine from nuclear weapons. But when the conversation turned to North Korea, the Secretary spoke with less clarity. "Our policy right along," he said, "has been oriented to try to keep North Korea from getting a significant nuclear-weapon capability...
...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...