Word: concealability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gigantic firm has agreed to pay a record $51 million to the Resolution Trust Corporation, the federal body managing the assets of failed S&Ls. According to the RTC, Jones Day attorneys -- hired by Keating in 1986 -- were well aware that Keating was practicing financial and legal legerdemain to conceal Lincoln's serious problems. Yet Jones Day raised no alarm. The resulting failure cost taxpayers at least $2.5 billion and led to a prison term for Keating. Jones Day contends that Lincoln's demise was not caused by any advice it gave Keating...
...TEXAS GUNS ARE PRETTY MUCH THE STATE FLOWER. NOW IT seems elements in the state may be exporting a new way to conceal some of that firepower: a holster that looks like a beeper. An internal San Francisco police bulletin warns cops to be wary of suspects using this product, available by mail order from Grand Prairie, Texas. An ad for the holster/beeper reads: "Fast. Safe. Discreet. Press button and front of case pops open and hinges down, allowing instant draw...
Despite the careful rituals of closing the plot with exclusively male-female pairings and of never allowing two men actually to kiss on stage, Romancing the Throne can-kiss on stage, Romancing the Throne cannot conceal its gay reference: characters snap with the greatest of ease; dragons" lithsp; queens tirade about men and relationships; classic disco moments bellow from painted lips; and many other gay (in both sense of the world) moments percolate through the show. It's refreshing to know that--despite all the recent tensions around gay issues and despite the prevalence of AIDS--a vibrant torch...
...seasoned skier, nothing could be more alluring than a descent into a high-country valley carpeted with fresh-fallen snow. And nothing could be more treacherous. The same pristine slopes that offer powder hounds the thrill of carving first tracks can conceal thrills of a more perilous kind: avalanches, known to mountaineers as the "white death." Avalanches have already claimed 19 lives in the U.S. this winter. And last week five Coloradans, who lost their way in a subzero Aspen blizzard, were almost added to that number, raising awareness of the hazard...
...name may announce something -- or conceal something. In some societies, ; the Arab or Chinese, for example, a beautiful child may be called by a depreciating name -- "Dog," "Stupid," "Ugly," say -- in order to ward off the evil eye. Hillary Rodham knew that in some parts of the political wilds, she attracted the evil eye to the 1992 Democratic ticket. So during her demure, cookie-baker phase, she was emphatically "Hillary Clinton," mute, nodding adorer and helpmate of Bill. She half-concealed herself in "Hillary Clinton" until the coast was clear. With the Inauguration, the formal, formidable triple name has lumbered...