In response to these revelations, Batali, who owns or co-owns more than two dozen restaurants, hosts the ABC morning show "The Chew," and has extensive licensing partnerships, has issued a number of apologies.
"He needs to make a number of apologies - to the manager and his team-mates.
But as a number of subsequent apologies would suggest, the disses were a learning curve; Lorde spent the bulk of her early interviews being pushed into the gladiator ring with pretty much every other female pop star on the planet and asked to pass comment for the sake of a headline.
That visceral, sudden sinking feeling also suggests something else: that Garcia, a veteran global sports celebrity, knew almost instantly that his offensive words were something that would very likely remain with him for the rest of his career and beyond, regardless of the passing of time and the force or number of subsequent apologies.
A botched apology not only taints the act of apology but the ability to accept an apology as well.
Despite the number of recent public apologies Apple is proving resistant to issuing one to Samsung.
Footage of the incident spread like wildfire on social media, and, for a number of folks, no apology could absolve the airline from what went down on flight 3411.
Footage of the incident spread like wildfire on social media, and, for a number of folks, no apology could absolve the airline from what went down on flight 3411.
A number of measures (e.g., apologies, truth telling) are aimed at restoring a sense of dignity and inclusion to formerly mistreated or disempowered parties.
When he got in trouble for throwing whitewash on trucks as they passed the Gore farm when he was 12, for example, his father made him send letters of apology to a number of trucking companies.
After his Senate defeat, there were a number of personal lows -- the apology to the Talking Heads, the whole Jim Greer catastrogasm, his setting up shop with the Morgan & Morgan law firm.
