Word: concealer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...
Mamet's men talk for a living, and they talk to keep from telling the truth. In their four-letter world, lying comes with the territory. As the Old Man says in Strindberg's Ghost Sonata: "Silence hides nothing. Words conceal." Two of the salesmen, Moss (Ed Harris) and Aaronow (Alan Arkin), sit in a bar, grousing about the real estate company. It is as much a part of their job as sounding stardusted with sweet reason while on a pitch. Moss sketches an idea for a theft of the office, and later tells Aaronow he is implicated...
First, the University tried to conceal the very existence of the course I settled...