Not only does it avoid losing one of its top brass or having hundreds of potentially embarrassing documents aired in court, but the fine is a mere half of what most analysts had expected it to receive.
China, embarrassed by air pollution before the 2008 Olympics, says it is now costing its economy $400bn a year, or 6% of its GDP.
Americans may continue to watch talk shows that air embarrassing personal facts about their presidents; but they may be decreasingly moved by them.
In the first, senators aired embarrassing internal e-mails, including one in which an S&P staffer berated colleagues for developing "a kind of Stockholm syndrome which they mistakenly tag as customer value creation".
Rather than air McCain's embarrassing inaccurate answer, CBS edited the tape to use a McCain answer to a previous question in the place of his real answer--a deliberate distortion of reality.
It is also embarrassing to have student complaints aired outside the lab or department".
(Of necessity: It would be embarrassing if the city's appalling air quality were to affect the health of athletes).
I had four people in the room with me for the examination, which, considering the circumstances (legs flailing in the air), wasn't that embarrassing.
Once upon a time, cable channels were embarrassed by on-air outbursts or other anchor antics.
Instead, the coverage frequently descended into on-air squabbles between the anchors, embarrassing some workers at NBC's news division, and quite possibly alienating viewers.
