"The company has experienced significant problems with its safety practices and risk management, wreaking havoc on surrounding communities, destroying shareholder value as well as tarnishing its reputation," Ms. Stroud wrote.
To my wife, Jeanine, I would like to publicly apologize for the difficulties which I have imposed upon her in carrying out her professional aspirations, as well as tarnishing her stellar record".
As an old-timer, I have been through many of these quadrennial exercises in presidential selection, and I know very well how easily tarnished the best intentions are in the confrontation with Beltway reality.
A spokesman for Ms. Quinn, Mike Morey, pointed to some of the Giuliani administration's more pugilistic moments — as well as its most tarnished alumnus — to call into question Mr. Lhota's bona fides as a reformer.
Had he been convicted he could have spent up to a year in jail and had his reputation tarnished as well, severely harming his chances of playing in the NBA again.
"We knew very well it would tarnish our image globally," Muhith told reporters.
But his legacy might well be forever sealed and tarnished by his alliance with the hyper-communist Khmer Rouge movement that ravaged Cambodia from 1975 to 1979.
By working with some of the biggest brick-and-mortar retailers, ZenDeals thinks that it can help its retail partners improve conversion rates as well as revitalize the somewhat tarnished image of eCoupons.
Flashing her mega-watt smile that could light up a room, the luminous Appleby declared without a shadow of a doubt as she protectively defended her character- and all other sufferers that have seen their story tarnished on screen; "Well, I really don't think Rachel is Crazy, nor do I think a lot of people are that are out there being called that.
Now, as the links between Bernard L. Madoff and elite private banks like Geneva-based Union Bancaire Privée emerge, this well-polished reputation has been tarnished by the $50 billion Ponzi scheme that Mr. Madoff has been arrested for and accused of running.
