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Entries may range from simple ideas which embarrass corporations to more complex plans for stopping corporate irresponsibility. Tactics will be judged on creativity and feasibility by a panel of ecotage experts. The second place winner will receive an ecology library; ten third place winners will receive copies of two ecology handbooks...
...would not expect to win. I have neither the background nor the training," he demurs. Nor is he much interested in precipitating a "dump Nixon" movement. More likely, he hopes that by a good showing in the New Hampshire primary, or even the threat of one, he can embarrass the President into ending...
...tables and green barrier boards to stop stray Ping Pong balls. Two games were played at a time, and Cowan, who wore a red headband to keep back his hair, was an obvious favorite of the crowd. "We had the impression the Chinese were trying hard not to embarrass us by lopsided scores," said Tim Boggan. They did not. The Chinese players won the men's games 5-3 and the women's 5-4. Afterward, the opponents exchanged gifts-matching pen and letter-opener sets for the Chinese, and "Double Happiness" table tennis paddles and balls...
...well ahead in the competition until last week, when the record industry's Grammy Awards show on ABC descended past all previous lows for tedium and tastelessness. But two major contenders for the Uggy still loom ahead. TV's own Emmy show always finds fresh ways to embarrass the medium, and though little has leaked about next month's Oscar cast, there is reason to take faint heart: the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award will be given, with a straight face, to Frank Sinatra...
Venomous Division. That belief, what might be called the "Coriolanus complex," seems to embarrass Miller. So he tones down or eliminates speeches expressing it in order to spotlight Stockmann as a kind of pioneer spirit of the purely ethical life. As a result, the play becomes something of a tirade against the venality of small-town existence rather than a broad examination of when, or whether, the democratic principle of majority rule may legitimately be abrogated by a single individual. Certainly, in the realm of ideas one would have to agree with Stockmann: "Before many can know something, one must...