Word: betraying
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...underlined an unusually high level of cooperation between Justice and the SEC, which has limited subpoena powers and a more complex bureaucracy to navigate. Attorney General John Ashcroft emphatically announced that Justice was raising the stakes, declaring that "corrupt corporate executives are no better than common thieves when they betray their employees and steal from their investors." He noted that the WorldCom executives could face as much as 65 years in prison, which legal experts dismissed as prosecutorial hyperbole. Yet as former federal prosecutor and Los Angeles white-collar defense lawyer Mark Beck notes, "The criminal sanction is so severe...
...both encompassed large public projects and smaller private housing developments. They have embraced both pedestrian and vehicular transport concerns and created spaces housing everything from a library’s hush to a stadium’s roar. They also have a penchant for layered flat planes that betray high, open air expanses. What unifies them all is an absorbing, vaguely structuralist style that manages to appear clean without being clinical...
...righteously violent response. But life doesn't work that way, and neither did most of the best old movies. Casablanca and Gone With the Wind did not end happily for their heroines; the frustrations of duty and destiny intervened. In the end, the new women-in-peril films betray a simultaneous naivete (that the heroine will triumph) and cynicism (that moviegoers won't believe justice is done unless they see the bad guy blown away...
...novel’s exploration of these extraordinary uses of silence, stillness and language suggests intriguing new ways to consider these concepts. And in some ways Marcus also succeeds in giving the novel emotional power, mostly through rare moments in which the protagonist’s seemingly careless observations betray a kind of sadness or nostalgia for the life the Silentists won’t allow...
...Elder’s “The Tower of Babel” paintings. In Bergstein’s “Mount II,” a decaying round structure emerges out of a charred and flat landscape. Fractured rising levels are energized by thin lines that betray the motion of a building buffeted by wind, as the sky overhead swirls in an array of wiry spiralling strokes and abstracted ghosted line drawings. Bergstein departs from Bruegel in that he invests his work with an incisive, visceral intensity, but his smaller canvases seem only preparatory studies for his central...