But for every tawdry story, happy ones flood the conference rooms of the DEMA convention.
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The consequences of this tawdry tale will be far-reaching, and so they should be.
Lillehei's 1973 trial exposed the tawdry side of the brilliant surgeon, who was married with four children.
The piece presents a tawdry taxonomy of the sad and self-deluded types struggling to make music without starving.
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That creates a lot of interest in Mr Burrell's tawdry tales, far outweighing the merits of their content.
Frazetta's wild cover art--fantastic, sensuous, a bit tawdry--moved paperbacks that previously had languished.
One reason is that they and other tourists bring in their wake tawdry souvenir shops and fast-food restaurant chains.
The worst moments of the year were more tawdry than tragic, though bad enough to derail Michael's promising political career.
Authorities say she planned the attack on Travis Alexander in a jealous rage after he wanted to end their tawdry affair.
After years on the job, they see nothing sinister, tawdry or demeaning about their occupation and consider their lives quite normal.
Some of this is fitfully amusing, but a loving re-creation of something tawdry is not all that different from the original.
It's hard to remember that in the early 1930s libraries banned these books as tawdry and sensationalist distractions from real literature.
Functionality, thrift and good taste are better long-term value propositions than showbiz glitz, which has made the Windsor image tawdry and volatile.
Season V began on a wrong note with a tawdry Bollywood song-and-dance opening show which even appears to have put off fans.
The story of poor-girl-makes-good was never quite straight, the fame never without its tawdry side, the money never reliably there, the behaviour rarely unembarrassing.
And, against all previous experience of Mr Berlusconi's tawdry governments, many people still want to believe in the magic that made him Italy's richest man.
Today's witness, Kenneth W. Starr, wrote the tawdry, salacious and unnecessarily graphic referral that he delivered to us in September with so much drama and fanfare.
Despite all the obvious, common-sense issues (incompetence, conflict of interest, past performance) Congress is turning a blind eye to this tawdry corner of the financial services industry.
While I think that would be a catastrophically terrible decision, I nevertheless wanted to share with you an example of that muck that gives the whole social-media world a tawdry reputation.
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In theory it sets him above the tawdry goings-on of daily politics (indeed, it makes him look presidential), while leaving Mr Chirac's reputation to be stained by every new leak from the judiciary.
"Practices that are tawdry at best and criminal at worst are hitting American business leaders in the stomach just as they're trying to get past the Enron, WorldCom and mutual fund scandals, " he says.
U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara questioned how much of the work of both state and city government "is tarnished by tawdry graft" while announcing probes landing six politicians in handcuffs and forcing a seventh from office.
For many years, as Microsoft grew, Bill Gates eschewed public relations and politics as tawdry activities unbecoming of a pure entrepreneur only to find himself up to his eyeballs in government law suits.
This may come down to tawdry details such as whether Sir Fred told senior colleagues - especially the bank's then chairman - about whatever relationship he may or may not have had with his colleague (sorry about the inelegant construction of that last point).
In that tawdry light, you couldn't have blamed Joeckel or Fisher for wanting no part of the Chiefs, especially considering that the second pick would go to the Jaguars of Jacksonville, an ocean-side locale in a state with no income tax (compared with 6% in Missouri).
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Enron was also the apex of the tawdry heap of WorldCom (reborn as MCI and sold to Verizon Communications ), Kozlowski-era Tyco International , ImClone Systems , names linked to misdeeds that so shocked the public that usually anti-regulation politicos banded with their counterparts to pass the Sarbanes-Oxley rules for governance.
The tawdry matter of money is one that occupies both sides of the coin, as it were--the creative sorts who need to eat while they try to anticipate or trigger the next style and the potential backers who would like to be a part of this sexy industry (without losing their silky shorts).
It is a tawdry, depressing and often confronting scene during the day, but at night the stretch has a raffish and oddly alluring charm, underpinned by neon lights, pumping music and crowds of suburban revellers who gawk and giggle their way between a huge number of bars, pubs and clubs, many of which are open 24 hours.
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