1.   Even before land prices collapsed, however, the business of lending to small businesses had a tainted image in Japan.

2.   His current drive for the presidency is also a quest to rehabilitate a tainted image.

3.   Leaders in Beijing recently have stepped up efforts to curb the powers of provincial power brokers, hoping to fortify central government control and to polish their tainted image.

4.   The party has been on a four-year crusade that has so far failed to stem growing corruption among its members and improve its tainted public image.

5.   The party and government have mounted a nearly three-year anti-graft campaign to weed out widespread corruption and bolster their tainted public image.

6.   China adopted new legislation on doping this week in its continuing bid to clean up its tainted image in international sport.

7.   The Palang Dharma and Nam Thai parties have said they would drop out of the coalition if persons with tainted images were given positions of responsibility in the government.

8.   Singh was courted by Congress candidates during campaigning for the general elections in April-May while Rao was shunned because of his tainted image.

9.   The new system has also helped the companies clean up their tainted image in the late seventies when sarakin debts became a major social problem.