But it is also true that this is only the latest of a string of corporate scandals involving appalling audit failures, from Maxwell and Polly Peck in Britain, through Metallgesellschaft in Germany, to Cendant, Sunbeam and Waste Management in America.
Brain research on monkeys typically involves appalling suffering, including invasive surgery so that restraining and recording devices can be implanted in their heads (these implants can easily become infected).
For a while his reticence is scarcely an issue because the fights — sloppy, messy, brutal — are so involving, both appalling and appallingly watchable even in smeariest video.
New York City Ballet Orchestra played particularly well under the baton of the Australian Ballet's music director and chief conductor, Nicolette Fraillon, but this version involves some appalling changes of tempo in the middle of individual sections.
Nor will the New Yorkers get involved because of appalling death tolls in that region.
But she ordered Zuma to pay a "reasonable percentage" of the cost of the renovations not related to security at his homestead and "reprimand the ministers involved for the appalling manner in which the Nkandla project was handled and state funds were abused".
Yet again the QC who two years ago laid bare the horrific details of the appalling care involved in the Mid Staffordshire scandal has found the NHS guilty of some very serious failings.
The latest allegations involving Medco "are appalling and leave a deep scar," said CalPERS Chief Executive Anne Stausboll.
A scandal involving the Chiefs' appalling treatment of a stripper at their post-season party (and the resulting NZRU investigation that seemed to blame the victim), the Losi Filipo debacle, and Aaron Smith's sex romp in a Christchurch airport toilet reinforced what I had long suspected about rugby after seeing the way the first XV guys strutted around high school, and university.
