Word: reproaching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quite exacting and self-critical when it comes to our own activities not only in this country but also outside of it, and we are asking ourselves again and again if (the decline in relations) is somehow connected with our actions. But what is there that we can reproach ourselves with in this context? In this critical situation Moscow is trying to practice restraint in its pronouncements about the U.S.; it is not resorting to anti-American campaigns, nor is it fomenting hatred for your country. We believe it very important that even in times of political aggravation the feeling...
...long trail of obvious clues, including the discovery in Auckland harbor of a dinghy and air tanks bearing French markings and commonly used by the French military. "We have legitimate interests in the Pacific," says Jacques Larche, chairman of the Senate laws committee. "The only thing that I reproach about the affair is that it failed...
...world of being; America is the world of becoming. In Europe, one is what one is; in America, one is what one does. To the immigrant this is a discovery of high excitement and also of some anxiety. Opportunity is not just opportunity but an imperative and a reproach. If anyone can make it in America, why haven't you? If anyone can be what he wants to be, why aren't you more...
...problems in the banking industry these days emerge one after another like the details in a messy scandal story. Moneymen have almost resigned themselves to new disclosures about bad loans and questionable practices at banks that were once considered above reproach. Last week came another surprise. Two of the ten biggest banks in the U.S., Bank of America and First Chicago, said that federal regulators had forced them to shore up their financial structure. Comptroller of the Currency C. Todd Conover ordered both institutions to increase their level of capital, which is the pool of money that belongs...
...Maaare! as Rhoda undoubtedly would have wailed with a mixture of pain, sympathy and gentle reproach. Mary Tyler Moore, 46, who chilled the same hearts in Ordinary People that she warmed on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, has joined the roster of celebrities (Johnny Cash, Elizabeth Taylor, Robert Mitchum, Liza Minnelli) who have checked into the Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage, Calif., for help with an alcohol problem. Moore, a diabetic since 1968, did so on the advice of doctors, who suggested that although she is not a heavy drinker she ought to halt even social drinking, which...