Word: embarrassing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more rumors. Some L.D.P. sources swore that Uno and his Cabinet would resign within a week. That sounded overly dramatic, but Uno's dithering had created severe uncertainty. The timing is especially bad: it would embarrass the party and the nation if a new Prime Minister had to be picked before the summit of major industrial nations in Paris July 14-17. On July 23 the L.D.P. faces an election for half the 252 seats of the Upper House of the Diet. Uno may soon have more than four woes to worry about...
...investigate the source of an apparently unfounded rumor that the FBI was looking into whether he had a no-show employee on his payroll. Majority leader Tom Foley, the likely successor to Wright, was asked to assure a group of conservative Democrats that nothing in his background would embarrass them...
...irresponsible style with which this issue was presented, the ignorance of relevant information, and the inability of the council to follow its own rules simply embarrass an organization which claims to represent students...
...Currier House we grant the distinction of being our fondest amusement. Each year, these hapless schlemiels manage to defy overwhelming odds and choke miserably. Squandering the legacy of a long-forgotten Marine Engineering Tutor, Currier's yachtsmen use their wondrous and speedy craft exclusively as a means to embarrass themselves. Nonetheless, their most remarkable achievement is not their genius for finding abjectly humiliating ways to lose, but their talent for having absolutely no fun in their attempts...
...public programs of quality and should make Rizzo find another way to reach what he calls the "rowhouse people, the little people." Rizzo's show amounts to little more than a bully pulpit from which this incessant politician can launch another bid for the mayor's office and embarrass Philadelphia more...