Word: cloak
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...voters - but this fall, the tenor of the groundwork has changed. Instead of facing one another three times over the familiar lecterns, checked by traditional time limits and rebuttal constraints, the candidates will be challenged by three different formats, where they'll endeavor to showcase their respective strengths - and cloak their weaknesses...
...later years, when his genius had pried him from anonymity, Guinness played all manner of historical celebrities, from Marcus Aurelius to Pope Innocent III, Hitler to Freud. By then, his eminence had become a cloak that he wore with cool majesty. It was like his "mischievous dolphin smile that spreads and flits away" (John le Carre's words). That smile was tight, wary and tinged with a seer's sadness; it invited affection but repelled intimacy. Emerging from a Guinness film, spectators wondered, "Who was that unmasked...
...Oracle's cloak-and-dagger tactics against its despised enemy Microsoft and its allies--not to mention Ellison's brazen defense of them--left the targets fuming. "They've set new standards for hypocrisy and disingenuousness, even for Oracle," says Microsoft spokesman Mark Murray. The Association for Competitive Technology, one of the organizations Oracle snooped, alleged that spies tried to buy its garbage. Other groups are saying that laptops with information relating to Microsoft were swiped from their offices...
...ways of scamming people out of their money to be real employment," says Morrison. Between 1969 and 1991, Robinson was convicted at least four times of embezzlement. He then allegedly used his financial gains to snare young women, promising them jobs and cash. He shifted his activities behind the cloak of the Internet, police say, when he believed suspicion might fall on him for the disappearances...
...between an ancient establishment rooted in honor and unlimited liability and a modern litigious society, seeking to avoid individual responsibility at all costs? Is there equity in hounding the Names to suicide or their last penny when the companies that initially profited from asbestos have already escaped behind the cloak of limited liability? At the beginning, the true, dangerous nature of asbestos was unknown to all--companies, workers and underwriters--and I ask why the whole burden of the horrible error is now placed solely on the last. JONATHAN HEMP Cape Town...