Some of these "fixes" were made, and the matter became an embarrassing scandal.

The F.D.A. has been forced by a series of embarrassing scandals over the past year to transform its "Daddy knows best" culture.

When an embarrassing scandal erupted before the Turin Games, Scherr stepped in.

The two leaders also share a similar problem with embarrassing arms-trading scandals, although Sweden's is not as serious as the Iran-contra affair.

Barnett presided over a series of embarrassing scandals and received a $3 million buyout.

The issue was crucial because Solidarity had been plagued by infighting, defections and embarrassing political scandals.

And this has led to embarrassing financial and academic scandals.

It took an embarrassing scandal to make officials at the City University of New York pay attention.

For this, blame Congress for not acting when it should - and all of last year's candidates who kept silent on this universally embarrassing scandal.