1.   He and other Orlando-area residents from Puerto Rico contend the focus on the drug pipeline has tarnished their efforts to assimilate into everyday life in Florida.

2.   The Canadian Airborne Regiment, whose international peacekeeping efforts were tarnished by a tawdry series of courts-martial and disgusting hazing rituals, marched into history Sunday.

3.   The committee, however, accused her of tarnishing the efforts to get her husband release.

4.   The campaign finance hearings into allegations of wrongdoing by President Clinton turned into a political brawl as Democats sought to tarnish the effort.