Word: reproachfulness
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BUSH'S CABINET LOOKS LIKE A RAINBOW AND APPEARS TO BE beyond reproach. But that's the trick. To judge this Administration, you must look deeper into the policies being enacted and their impact on the various segments of our society. You can't judge a book by its cover...
...that Harrigan and CalPERS didn't open the door to criticism. During most of the post-Enron era, CalPERS was above reproach, suing to hold WorldCom executives accountable for investor losses and helping lead popular, triumphant crusades for boardroom and executive-suite overhauls at the New York Stock Exchange and Disney. But earlier this year, CalPERS moved from the spotlight to the hot seat when it withheld support from Coca-Cola director and shareholder hero Warren Buffett because Coke's independent-auditor policy was allegedly too lax. At the time, John Castellani, head of the prestigious Business Roundtable, said...
...Arafat retreated from the negotiating table, and restored his popularity by aligning himself with the intifadah, ending his days under siege at his bombed-out Ramallah headquarters. The siege allowed him to restore his standing as the symbolic personification of Palestinian nationalism, which put him beyond reproach by the militants pressing for changes in the PA. But his heirs among the "Tunisians" enjoy no such immunity, and widespread resentment over corruption and cronyism in the West Bank and Gaza tends to play to the political advantage of the militants - and even of Hamas, which is viewed as more incorruptible than...
...relieved that our conversation had retreated from the precipice of candor and had returned to its wanted level of discourse, wherein my brother is a jerk and I reproach him for his jerkiness...
...Allah, it cannot be considered sacred or infallible. And if clerics have no God-given right to rule, he says, that means that Muslims may freely select their government in a democratic Islamic republic. Kadivar has also formulated a theory on why terrorism is forbidden in Islam--an indirect reproach to an Iranian regime that is widely accused of backing terrorist groups...