Right here and now I must apologize to Fed Chairman Alan and former Treasury Secretary Bob for such bluntness--because I'm talking about you.

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She has to leave right now, so I apologize.

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Even though he went on to apologize, he now has a permanent reputation as the kind of boss everyone dreads.

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We apologize, right now we have been a little swamped with demand and so we're adding a bunch of new hardware right now so it shouldn't be too long.

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Patrick Doyle, then the company's president and now its chief executive, made a video to apologize and say the employees had been fired and were facing criminal charges.

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That Treasury sponsored turnaround was a once in a lifetime opportunity for GM to apologize to the American consumer and vow to now get it right.

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Maybe this resonates more deeply for taking place in the South, where many leading newspapers once staunchly defended racial segregation in a way that is now embarrassing -- and which prompted some of them to apologize decades later.

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But in terms of Afghanistan, what do you say to those strategists, those in the military, who say that the Taliban has now less of an incentive to reconcile -- and, again, I apologize if this was asked -- but less of an incentive to reconcile with this due date of the surge troops being pulled out by next summer?

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She did apologize for her drunken rant, but she still said those things, and now people are praising her for being utterly conceited.

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James Press, who now runs all of Toyota's U.S. sales operations, visited Lexus dealers to apologize and to ask what Lexus could do to redeem itself.

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