Word: tarnishable
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Greenspan, however, has motives beyond his own job security for at least partly accommodating White House wishes. The Fed chairman would badly tarnish his reputation as a prudent monetary watchdog if he allowed a recession to develop by keeping interest rates too high for too long. And he can now claim victory in the fight against inflation that he had long rated more important than promoting economic growth. Last year was the fourth in a row in which consumer prices rose by less than 3%, a period of stability unmatched in three decades...
...source of advice to her husband, the American people have not only the right but the duty to watch her closely. Unelected power is a frightening tool, for it empowers without prescribing a means of disempowering. If Hillary Clinton has no job to lose, but only a reputation to tarnish, the public justifiably has cause for alarm...
...from the latter. For one thing, people expect you to say what's on your mind. On your mind, not what some consultant or focus group tells you an audience or interest group expects to hear. You can buy applause lines at the expense of basic credibility. You can tarnish the qualities of honesty, trust and the Midwestern grit that have got you this far. By refocusing your campaign on the true nature of leadership and Bill Clinton's failure to provide it, you can also unite the vast majority of Republicans. Better this approach than appear to pander, which...
...error in attempting to interrupt the sacred forum of a Harvard classroom. We offer our most humble apologies to the entire university, and even to the threatened heritage we are trying to uphold. Sometimes, in our zeal, we go too far. We hope our jubilant "disruption" did not tarnish the great honor we hoped to bestow upon the award recipients...
Locked in a losing battle with embarrassing tabloid headlines -- New York's Daily News dubbed Perelman the king of mean, comparable to Leona Helmsley's queen of the same title -- Perelman's lawyer, Stanley Arkin, did his best to tarnish Tepperman's reputation. Outside the jury's presence, Arkin claimed that Tepperman, after admitting his wife to the Florida nursing home where she is still a resident, began living with Denese Galban, the nurse who once cared for her. Tepperman's lawyers do not dispute his involvement with Galban but insist that the relationship has the blessing of other family...