Word: shame
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Shame on America. How she has lost her manners in the last century! It's a good thing the French gave us the Statue of Liberty in 1886. Today, we might have melted down the Bartholdi-Eiffel masterpiece and tossed her into a scrap metals heap 10 days after dedication. That's how Americans treat gifts...
...parents who tried to save the field are the only ones who see clearly, who treasure their homes, who have shame. But they strive against something much larger than they are, something which engulfs them and renders their actions all in vain...
Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch, talked about how his organization uses shame and publicity to stigmatize human rights violators...
...cameras were going to be side-by-side with the nation's finest on U.S. ships and aircraft. With the Pentagon's budget shrinking so steadily, one has to wonder what arrangements were made by the networks to get these terrific front-row seats. It's a bloody shame we didn't invade Haiti. It was the only respite we might have gotten from O.J. Simpson...
...would really be a shame if these extraordinary organisms...were basically destroyed because of some shift in reimbursement mechanisms.' --Jane H. Corlette