Word: embarrassment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BUCKNELL 49, CORNELL 30--The Bisons embarrass the Big Red as yet another conference squad falls to an outsider. Are you listening, Mr. Giamatti...
...speak to tenants and to listen to their concerns." People just dropping by for a meeting do not disguise their names and addresses. Erickson, by the way, says on that score: "I honestly cannot remember the signature process." The whole episode stinks, and if it doesn't deeply embarrass Harvard--embarrass it enough to can Erickson, or whoever had the bright idea to send him, embarrass it enough to apologize--it is proof of something...
...into some programs that Reagan had earlier defined as part of an untouchable "social safety net." True enough, current formulas are widely believed to reward recipients of some of these benefits, especially Social Security, more than the rise in their real living costs would warrant. Nonetheless, the decision might embarrass the President, who had pledged only last Tuesday that "the budget will not be balanced at the expense of those dependent on Social Security...
Whether or not Begin had deliberately intended to embarrass the Administration, Reagan and his advisers were clearly not prepared for the Beirut raid. Israeli officials predictably objected when the U.S. delayed delivery of the F-16s* following the attack on the Iraqi reactor. Yet Begin and his Cabinet apparently assumed that the delay was only symbolic and saw no need to pay attention to U.S. concerns about Israeli military actions. They were more interested in demonstrating that there were no strings attached to their use of the F-16s. Indeed, late last week Israel condemned as "unfair" the latest delay...
...York Hammett drank with Faulkner, drinking so much that they often passed out together at swank parties and were steered to the coat room so as not to embarrass the guests. This was in the mid-thirties, and Hammett was at the height of his work--and of his political calling. Ever since Red Harvest his upbringing and sojourns among the scum that preyed on the poor had made him a devoted Marxist and remained devoted, giving time, money and writing to groups which sought to stamp out anti-Semitism and Fascism...