Word: shaming
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...doctors may be reluctant to raise the issue in the first place. Checkups are typically too brief to allow a doctor to broach the topic tactfully and work out a detailed, practical weight-loss plan. Some doctors fear they will worsen the problem by embarrassing the child and instilling shame instead of empowering him or her to get healthy. And doctors worry about turning off Mom and Dad as well. "Every parent feels guilty that their child has a weight problem," says David Ludwig, the director of the Optimal Weight for Life Program at Children's Hospital Boston...
...Clinton when she spoke, did not react, but she did get a hearty laugh, followed by applause, from the mostly young people in the audience. Indeed, if Odinga thought to play into anticolonial feelings, he appears to have miscalculated. Most Kenyans share Clinton's views. "It is actually a shame that we need pressure from the U.S. to do what is right," the Daily Nation said in an editorial on Thursday. "I think she's done a good job of insisting that we put our house in order," said a man awaiting her appearance at a town-hall meeting...
...final layover en route to the United States, I was finally patted down. I watched the agent spread books and magazines pulled from my backpack out before me, a judicious collection of Islamic Revolutionary materials packed in consideration of the authorities at Imam Khomeini Airport. I could only feel shame. After all of that worry, nothing had happened...
...servicers aren't spending enough money or energy to make the program work. Treasury and HUD want the companies to add more staff, expand their call centers, train their representatives better, put more information online and create a system for dissatisfied borrowers to appeal their cases. To shame the firms into better participation, the government said that in August it will start revealing the number of modifications at each company and the long-term success of those rewrites...
Foxx, Rep. Virginia • giggle-inducing declaration - "Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on you" - is made...