Word: concealability
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...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...
That Healy has the power to make such expenditures is true. But the high price of the settlement demands voluntary disclosure on Healy's part. More shocking to the council than the high price of settlement was Healy's power to conceal it from them, and the council's lack of expertise to curb Healy's power. City Councillor Jonathan s. Myers lamented. "This is not a way for us to do business...
Although the subject of inheritance is one of the last taboos in the once crowded American closet, it's getting harder and harder to conceal its prodigious effects on the huge segment of the population born after World War II. Says Brian O'Brien, 30, who used a $20,000 cash infusion from his parents to buy a $235,000 three-bedroom house in Walnut Creek, California, last year: "It's kind of like the unspoken reality of our generation. Everybody gets by and buys houses, and nobody asks where the money came from...
...privacy exists in a computer system, even for the boss. System administrators need to have access to everything in a computer in order to maintain it. Moreover, every piece of E-mail leaves an electronic trail. Though Oliver North tried to delete all his electronic notes in order to conceal the Iran-contra deal, copies of his secret memos ended up in the backup tapes made every night by White House system operators. "The phrase 'reasonable expectation of privacy' is a joke, because nobody reasonably expects any privacy nowadays," says Michael Godwin, general counsel for the Electronic Frontier Foundation...