Word: concealability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...study last month by the attorney general of New Jersey, who found that police brass unofficially encouraged state troopers to stop blacks and Hispanics in disproportionate numbers as part of a campaign to increase drug arrests. Two troopers were later suspended and indicted on charges of falsifying records to conceal racial profiling. (They pleaded not guilty.) A judge dismissed charges against 21 people whom the troopers had arrested...
...think much can be explained by the trench coats, not because they are long and black and what the kids call Gothic, but because they look alike; they conceal differences. People who are attracted to clans and cults seek to lose their individuality and discover power and pride in a group. As individuals, the killers, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, were vulnerable, taunted by the other tribes in school--the cliques, the athletes--as geeks and nerds. "He just put a gun to my head," a girl reported. "And he started laughing and saying it was all because people were...
...Laptops] are easy to remove and conceal. Some months, monetary losses from stolen laptops exceed monetary losses from stolen bicycles," Donaldson said...
...polyglot and polychrome New York City. When outlaw and author first met nearly seven years ago at a lower Manhattan nightclub, K was trying to make it as a hip-hop lyricist and performer. He had the look (270 lbs. of muscular intimidation draped in clothing loose enough to conceal an arsenal) and a showman's instincts. In the book his stage name is American Dread, suggesting both the nation's historical fear of black uprisings and Jamaica's popular hairstyle...
Many legal scholars believe the President is more vulnerable to charges that he lied about an affair than that he confected a conspiracy to conceal it. But the perjury charges do not throw open the doors to witnesses, and witnesses are what the House prosecutors want above all: witnesses are their last chance to sway opinion. The obstruction case, the Republicans realized, was the fastest way to convince Senators that the major players had to be called. "Let me ask you two questions," Hutchinson said. "First: Can you convict the President of the United States without hearing testimony...