Word: concealability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...suit also claims that Harvard tried to conceal the height increase of the new structure in order to get the expansion approved by the zoning board...
...idea of stickups inside some of the world's glossy, high-tech laboratories and computer warehouses is a bit incongruous, unless one considers that computer chips are a robber's dream -- very precious (up to $900 for the newest models) and easy to conceal (the size of matchbooks when sealed inside their cases). And these days they are in high demand: the worldwide market for personal computers grew 8%, to $68 billion, in 1993. The main target of thieves is the Intel 486 chip that powers most new IBM PC and IBM-compatible machines; such chips are now in more...
...scalpel with skill, but most surgeons never approach the audacity of Dr. Roger Poisson. From 1977 to 1990, the French-Canadian physician falsified data on scores of patients so that he could enroll as many people as possible in important research studies on the treatment of breast cancer. To conceal the deception from the trial's American coordinators, the former head of oncology at St. Luc's Hospital in Montreal kept a double set of medical files labeled "true" and "false." His office even submitted progress reports for one woman two years after her death. "In the strict sense...
...messages to one another, lending a substantial degree of protection from the intrusion of other private entities. Only a few law enforcement agencies would be able to break into these coded communications. The purpose of the project is to ensure that computer-literate criminals won't be able to conceal their data-trails with vast, "un-crackable" codes of their...
That was the least of what Ames and his wife were up to. They had a secret that would become too big to conceal. Over the next nine years, according to a detailed affidavit released last week by federal prosecutors, Ames allegedly sold the KGB and its successor agency, the MBRF, the names of Soviet agents who had been recruited by the CIA, as well as valuable secrets about U.S. surveillance of the Soviet Union. During that time, the couple made dozens of large cash deposits to two Virginia banks and transferred other sums to banks...