Word: embarrassing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...know," he explained anthropologically, "is that the culture out of which they come doesn't draw the same bright lines between politics, government and business that we do." He was describing the Asian-American donors whose largesse had done so much to help re-elect him in 1996 and embarrass him in 1997. But he might just as well have been describing his own roots in Arkansas' cash-and-carry politics, a "culture" that Clinton brought with him to Washington and that by last week had allowed him to startle a city that does not normally blush when money...
...companies--Dow Jones is a recent target--in order to improve their laggard stock prices. Meanwhile, the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS), the nation's largest pension fund with a mountainous $108 billion under management, each year flaunts a list of losers it owns to try to embarrass CEOs into remedial action. CalPERS and other managers--be they of mutual funds or public or private pension funds--have generally wielded their clout for the good of all. The money, after all, is largely ours. We should cheer as they ferret out clueless CEOs and demand solutions. Indeed, the average...
...late 1950s. Hwang would be the highest-ranking North Korean official to defect to the South since the division of the Korean Peninsula a half-century ago. His stunning move puts Beijing, a traditional ally of Pyongyang, in a bind. Allowing him to fly to Seoul will embarrass and infuriate North Korea. South Korean officials are conferring with the Chinese government on how to bring Hwang to Seoul. Unless a face-saving compromise is found, a protracted diplomatic standoff looms. Why would such a senior and influential leader defect at this time? "Possible explanations read like a multiple choice," notes...
...been amply rewarded. "Measured against where all the money was 10 years ago--in banks--they've done great," says Robert Schmidt, president of Individual Investor Group, a financial-magazine publisher. He's right. Even bottom-tier funds in the '80s and '90s have been good enough to embarrass bank CDs, the likely repository for savings that aren't in stocks. Still, people left CDs for a reason. Having correctly made that tough decision years ago, they should not be grateful now for lackluster results. Even though their money on the whole has more than tripled in stock funds...
Whoever that is may have a job on his or her hands, as Bibro admits to never having tried Japanese food. And one wouldn't want to embarrass one's hosts by putting wasabi...