Word: embarrassment
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Kerry said. Kerry and Heinz Kerry spoke at the event, organized by the Harvard Book Store, to promote their new book, “This Moment on Earth: Today’s New Enviromentalists and their Vision for the Future.” “We have to embarrass people being dumb and greedy,” Heinz Kerry said. Kerry said he and Heinz Kerry chose the title of their book because U.S. policy in the next 10 years will have a decisive impact on the future of the environment. “The urgency kept coming back...
...Maybe it’s because we’re smarter that we realize it doesn’t take the complicated prose of our academic papers to embarrass, belittle and antagonize our opponents. Maybe it’s because, through the laws of environment, the world rewards those who treat it best with a better arsenal of insults...
...Democrats two weeks ago. "My boss will never support it." An aide to a more conservative Senator, who doesn't like what's going on in Iraq but is not willing to oppose the President, was more pointed. "They are all trying to figure out a way to embarrass the President and rally the netroots," he said. "It won't get very...
...against the plight of the homeless in the bitter winter of 1954, after a woman froze to death in Paris with her eviction notice in hand, remains one of the most broadly cited expressions of human compassion in the French language. Once he became famous, he was happy to embarrass those who honored him into taking real action. In 1992 he was named a Grand Officer in the French Legion of Honor, but refused to wear the insignia until the government found a humane solution for the plight of 300 African families who had been tossed into the street...
...care for her two sons, and why the starving children of Africa and Asia were kin to her. The photos of Audrey with the Somalian children show a woman nearly as thin as they. It's anorexia as empathy - as if she didn't want to embarrass the starving children she met by looking too well...