Word: conceal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Osicala lives by elaborate charades, invented to disguise actions and conceal motives. A man was kidnaped one night by los muchachos (the boys), as the guerrillas are known, and ordered to drive them five miles in his truck. When he returned to Osicala at dawn, he told his neighbors that the rebels had given him a shot of a mysterious serum so that he would not remember anything. During a guerrilla attack in January, two guerrillas were killed outside a house in the village. Because of the intense fighting, says one resident, they were buried in the garden rather than...
...Washington atmosphere where the swamp gas of Watergate and Viet Nam still lingers, the press is generally convinced that much of what is classified secret hi the name of security is really designed to conceal mistakes and protect reputations. In this mood, coverage becomes a somewhat playful cat-and-mouse game, as the press ferrets out secrets, while arguing high-mindedly that the real winner is the public. This is true only when the public is learning what it had a right to know and was not being told. The rest is headlines, titillation and gossip, whose place in journalism...
...Reagan's long-standing opposition to the program. Though it may seem like a case of the idealogue bowing to pragmatism, we are anything but reassured by the president's decision. The circumstances surrounding the announcement indicate that complex motives were involved, that the Administration is clumsily trying to conceal these motives, and that the continuation of registration could lead to a far more serious step: resumption of the peacetime draft...
...AUTHOR'S VIEW OF PRIVACY is easily the most innovative and controversial element of the book. Using economic efficiency as the ultimate justification of any measure, Posner decides that many of the recent legislative and judicial actions on privacy have been wrong-headed, since they allow individuals to conceal personal information that might be relevant to reliability as a transaction partner, while forbidding business enterprises from keeping secrets, even though the business might use its privacy to create products or processes that contribute greatly to the wealth of society...
...assembled ambassadors, ministers and government officials could barely conceal their reaction. Dramatic as the proposal may have sounded to a layman, it was nothing more than a dusted-off version of an idea Brezhnev first offered in a speech in East Berlin more than two years ago when he was still trying to thwart NATO'S decision to install new weapons in response to the Soviet buildup of SS-20 missiles aimed at Europe. Brezhnev, who was making his first trip to the West since the December 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, had been successfully upstaged by Ronald Reagan...