Word: concealability
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...paranoia, eerily coming to resemble his dead father as he struggles to run the household and the pachinko business. Kazuki is so frazzled he can't even get around to disposing of the corpse; as his mind begins to unravel, he desperately concludes more killing may be necessary to conceal the dead body rotting in a vault filled with gold...
However, if the goals of Harvard and Michigan are substantively the same—to create a diverse student body for diversity’s sake—as Justice Brennan argued in his concurrence to Bakke, they should be treated equally. Just because Harvard is able to conceal its methods from the public by using more sophisticated tools than a 150-point scale does not mean it should duck and cover during the anti-affirmative action backlash...
...disclosed that they had handed the victim $125,000 to quash a lawsuit in 1996. In the past decade, four dioceses (see chart) have laid out $96.2 million in settlements. And these are only the ones that have become public; the vast majority carry confidentiality agreements that continue to conceal the full extent of priest misconduct and church payouts...
...prove church officials knew about the abuse and failed to stop it. Most dioceses also insure themselves through a Catholic self-help pool to which they contribute healthy annual premiums. Sometimes nicknamed "the Bishop's Program," this extra insurance often provides the cash payments that church authorities use to conceal their priests' wrongdoings...
...More important, because Doe feels that O'Connell and the diocese of Jefferson City conspired to conceal what O'Connell had been doing - and because Doe has material evidence in the form of e-mail and taped phone messages over the past two weeks of O'Connell urging him not to come forward with his own tale of abuse - he and his Minnesota attorney, Jeff Anderson, feel they have grounds to sue O'Connell and the diocese under federal racketeering (RICO) laws usually used to convict mafiosos. "Crime is crime," says Doe, "whether it's for God or for Tony...