Word: reproaching
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...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...
...priests, including Foreign Minister Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann and Culture Minister Ernesto Cardenal Martinez (at whom the Pope shook his finger in reproach during his 1983 visit to Nicaragua), struck a compromise with their church superiors in 1981 by agreeing not to say Mass or perform religious functions while holding their government posts...
...gingerly defended his colleagues against attacks from the press as well as from the Democrats. Unlike the Administration, the press undergoes no such persistent, informed scrutiny from the outside. That is all the more reason for those in the press to consider themselves to be not white knights beyond reproach but vulnerable members of the human race...
...prepublication review, the government's plan to test the integrity of millions of Americans with lie detectors sharply contradicts our deeply hold belief that individuals remain innocent until proven guilty. Under the Administration's plan, individuals must prove to the satisfaction of the government that their loyalty is beyond reproach. This heavy-handed approach--common in totalitarian regimes--warrants public outrage in a free, democratic nation. Adoption of the directive would create a dangerous precedent, perhaps a harbinger of even greater violations of personal freedom...