I cringed when I read this because my mum once told me in my 20s that I was "gross".
Outside finance, even red-blooded capitalists cringed in embarrassment.
On their next visit to Washington the chastened executives travelled by car.This time it was those in the business-jet industry who cringed.
The young Western-educated elite cringed at the day-long banquets laced with toasts and songs, the celebrations of idleness.
Long before September 11th, they cringed at seeing themselves depicted as Hollywood's seemingly favourite villains and bridled at what they see as America's apparently reflexive backing for Israel, right or wrong.
Many of the customers sitting outside "A la Bonne Heure", one of the cafes, cringed at the display of jubilation.
FRENCH internet executives, bloggers and web users cringed in early January when an independent report for the ministry of culture proposed a tax on online advertising revenues, aimed at American firms such as Google, Microsoft, AOL, Yahoo! and Facebook, to pay for new subsidies for the music, film and publishing industries.
Hostile takeovers are all but unknown in Germany, and Krupp's brash bid seemed to herald the onset of a new, more aggressive German capitalism.But when Deutsche's headquarters was besieged by thousands of furious steel workers claiming that the bank was betraying Germany's values of consensus and social harmony, the bank cringed.
But I cringed just as much watching Hillary Clinton try to do the same.
But Allan Meltzer, a Fed historian at Carnegie Mellon University, cringed, saying it looked as if the Fed had caved in to political pressure: "It gets close to the idea of credit allocation.
Ask her what the target was and she says without batting an eyelid: Kim Jong Il.A few weeks ago, many leftish South Koreans would have cringed at that reminder of the conservative GNP's long-standing hatred toward North Korea's ruler and his regime.
