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Competition among arms exporters is often cutthroat. Secrecy and deception become second nature as some weapons salesmen, in ways that seem to have more in common with international espionage than commerce, try to embarrass, discredit and even blackmail their competition...
...going to try not to let the meet go down to the 400 free relay (the last event)" Essick said, "But on the other hand we don't want to embarrass Yale, not with its fine tradition...
...embarrass Arrupe, Curia conservatives leaked several confidential dressing-down letters from the Pope to the Jesuit Superior General. The conflict erupted in public in the fall of 1973, when Villot's office prepared a letter about the forthcoming Congregation that Pope Paul sent to Arrupe. In it, the Pope urged Arrupe to end the permissiveness of recent years. He added: "We express once again our desire, indeed our demand" that the Jesuits remain "a religious, apostolic, priestly order, linked to the Roman Pontiff by a special bond of love and service." Soon Rome was rife with rumors that Arrupe...
...Simeon D. Fess, chairman of the Republican National Committee, announced that a conspiracy was afoot to embarrass the administration through the stock market. What evidence did he cite for this belief...
Much of the reporting is flawed by errors of fact, interpretation and judgment that would embarrass even an undergraduate economics major. Few reporters note that current unemployment figures are not strictly comparable with those of earlier years because Government statisticians in the 1960s changed the way they define the work force. Similarly, many publications and broadcast outlets trot out the consumer price index monthly as if it accurately reflected everyone's inflation burden today. In fact, it reflects a market basket of goods and services required by less than 50% of all Americans. The base period for comparison purposes...