Word: embarrassing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that the Clintons were obsessed with preventing their tax records and other financial information from falling into unfriendly hands. At the time hardly anyone knew about Whitewater or Hillary Clinton's lucrative commodities trades, and no federal probe of the Clintons' finances was under way. Republicans believe they can embarrass the White House if they can prove--or even assert--that Thomases and the Clintons wanted it to stay that way. Combative, self-important and funny, Thomases, 51, met the Clintons in the 1970s and served as their scheduler in the 1992 campaign. Declining a job in the White House...
...similar measure. Although support for the resolution was high,TIME World Editor James Collinssays the vote was chiefly an expression of dissatisfaction with President Clinton's Bosnia policy, and may not be veto-proof. "If it comes right down to it, a lot of Democrats will switch rather than embarrass their president." Under the plan, the embargo would be lifted after withdrawal of U.N. troops now on the ground or within 12 weeks of a request by the Bosnian government...
...prospect that this review could embarrass the vice president--or alienate some of his constituents--was apparently enough to get Marius...
This is nonsense -- rationalization of the most obvious sort. What we need to do, each of us as individuals, is let those who are polluting the culture know that we are going to embarrass them and shame them until they stop, until they use their vast talents and resources to put us in touch with our best selves -- instead of with the worst parts of our nature...
...response from the already heavily armed Bosnian Serbs, resulting in what a U.N. official indelicately calls a "Dolocaust." The Pentagon opposes Dole's plan, and he has postponed bringing it to the Senate floor until June at the earliest. If Congress passes it, which is likely if only to embarrass Clinton, who castigated George Bush in 1992 for being weak on Bosnia, Clinton will certainly veto...