Word: offendable
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...human rights should be of concern to America ethically, economically, and even militarily. Several successive American administrations have played a dangerous cat-and-mouse game with China, trying to balance concerns over China's unfair trade policies with concerns for human rights abuses, all the while attempting not to offend China. It is time for America to understand that in the case of China, human rights and free trade are intimately linked issues...
...stressed the damage done by politicians who think "it safer to sacrifice the national interest than offend some special interests...
...Fayed, trumpeted by the cover line DI GOES SEX-MAD. The issue was pulled by a number of newsstands after her death.) Dan Schwartz, editorial director of the more freewheeling Globe, also promised to toughen standards. "We're going to become more conservative about our assessment of what will offend people, because we have to," he said. "People's consciousness of what is paparazzi and what isn't has been raised...
...disparaging about their marriage. DEMI MOORE and BRUCE WILLIS have sued the supermarket tabloid the Star for suggesting that their union was over and that Moore had spent a wild night with Johnny Depp. (The National Enquirer said she was with Leonardo DiCaprio, which for some reason didn't offend the couple enough to sue.) Moore and Willis have also taken action against an Australian magazine called New Idea, which said Demi's obsession with fitness and an eating disorder were rupturing their happy home. "We are not filing this for financial gain," says Willis about the $5 million suit...
Explaining that the library staff makes no value judgments, Kautzman said, "Our job is to always keep the material readable. Considering how many magazines this library owns, I'm sure there's something that would offend any ideology...