Word: shamed
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...movement for free airtime arises from several factors: people may be fed up with the slick spitballs that candidates throw from behind the mask of a voice-over. But the fact that both voters and sages decry them does not shame candidates out of using them, in part because they work. Furthermore, the reformers argue, raising the money to pay for the ads consumes the candidates' time and corrodes their independence. Since these ads won't go away without a repeal of the First Amendment, the next best hope is to counteract them, to prod the candidates into standing...
...hearing something else from Secretary of Labor Robert Reich. Until the other Bob, Treasury Secretary Rubin, maneuvered him aside, Reich was an advocate of using the tax code to reward corporations that avoid layoffs by retraining workers, among other things. He also talked about creating a "corporate hall of shame" to pillory the bad guys...
Ismail J. Ramsey '89, a proctor on the fourth floor of Thayer said it was a "shame" that intelligent students would express their feelings in such a socially-divisive manner...
...went off. He left no suicide note. A Navy psychological autopsy concluded that "his style seemed consistent with someone whose duty it was to shoulder the burden and assume responsibility," even as that style clouded his ability to keep his situation in perspective. "The emotional pain and shame that Captain Blanchard felt he had brought upon himself and the Coast Guard led him to choose suicide as a solution...
...sleep-deprived youngster's grades soon slipped. When the teacher called home to express concern about the tendency to sleep during class, his parents beat him for bringing shame upon the family, she says...