Word: tarnish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Arithmetic Johnson (Michael Wilkes), what ensues is a bawdy comedy in the best saloon style. The acting is slick, the delivery as rapid and well-placed as a six-shot showdown. Both Linda Cameron and Bart McCarthy salvage the evening completely, as the innocent tottering on the verge of tarnish and the demure, surprisingly naive, robber. Surrounded by an appropriate cast, they are a touching couple of misfits. Yet, Percy Granger cheats us by disposing of his characters with a distasteful callousness. Achieving Allison's fall from grace with the admirably well-placed line, "Yes, we're all virgins here...
Donovan's reputation began to tarnish during his confirmation hearings, which raised some unanswered questions about the involvement of his former New Jersey construction company in illegal union payoffs. No charges were proved, but a New York Teamster official was indicted for extorting funds from the company. Donovan's performance on the job has not redeemed him. He has failed to build bridges to organized labor, though other pro-business Labor Secretaries before him have managed to do so. He attended an AFL-CIO meeting ten months ago, but since then, complains the federation's president, Lane...
Ironically, the Cubans themselves are a divided community. La Comunidad, as the older Cubans are called, fears the Marielitos will tarnish the reputation they have labored so hard to build in South Florida. "I tell my employees that if a black comes here asking for money, give it to him," says one prosperous Cuban gas station owner in Little Havana. "If an Anglo comes to rob us, give it to him. But if a Marielito comes here, kill him. I will pay for everything." The older Cubans also find themselves in a cultural and political split with the younger ones...
...AWACS deal when he met with 43 Republican Senators in the East Room of the White House. "The sale is particularly important in light of the tragedy of yesterday," he said. Indeed a defeat, which would mark the first time that the Hill had blocked an arms deal, would tarnish Reagan's projection of authority abroad and represent a slap at the Saudis...
Thompson and Eilts, however, asserted that the sale would not endanger the fragile Middle East peace and that defeat of the package--which can be vetoed by majority vote in the Senate and House--would tarnish the image of Reagan and the United States. Thompson added the rejection would force the Saudis to buy British radar planes...