Word: shames
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...what a shame puking would have been. Scrumptious hors d'oeuvres beckoned spiffed-up students taking a break from the dance floor. The delectable mini pecan pies were definitely not Union fare, and the little egg roll things were rather cute. Kevin B. Acklin '98 was so taken by the ambrosial morsels that he could only mumble between mouthfuls, "Good food. Good food." At least, I think that's what he said...
...music, movie, television and advertising industries for "poisoning" young people with "destructive messages of casual violence and even more casual sex." Senator Dole does not think censorship is the answer. "The solution lies closer to home, with the American people," he said during his week-long campaign kickoff tour. "Shame is a powerful tool; we should use it." TIME congressional correspondent Karen Tumulty says it first became clear that Dole wasleaning a little rightwardyesterday, when he pledged not to raise taxes. "This is a long way from the days when Dole was criticizing supply-side economics," she says...
There's Coyote Jack and Sid Geeder the Mortgage King and some guy who flosses his teeth all the time. They're rich, sick, steeped in shame and caffeine, and "in the heat of sale, they needed to keep talking, and they said whatever came to them, as long as it was just color commentary ." So airless is this hive, it is not till near the book's midpoint that we learn that the office action, as distinct from the global flow of byte-driven hysteria, takes place in San Francisco. Some of the brighter salesmen muse about quitting...
...point in his life appears to have occurred in 1982, when he was arrested for selling fake cures. Authorities detained him for 20 days and fined him 200,000 yen--about $800 at that time. The business went bankrupt, and Asahara was reputedly shattered by the incident. Out of shame at what neighbors thought, for some time afterward he and his wife only left their home to buy essentials...
...than the average bill collector. Armed with a court order, investigators can often convince authorities to garnish wages, attach bank accounts or even foreclose on real estate. The provisions passed by the House last week could "give us additional tools to work with,'' Hoffman says. Sometimes the collectors simply shame the deadbeat, plastering his neighborhood with wanted posters or--in a case near Fort Worth--posting his name on a highway billboard. The ultimate threat is jail time...