Word: concealing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stereotypes. Frantz Fanon explained this phenomenon as a response to an image of the negative; blacks are automatically deemed bad (inferior, dangerous) by being the opposite of whites. African Americans cannot hide their color the way whites can hide their feelings about color. The only ways they can conceal themselves are to "pass" or disappear into white culture (this is a major theme of early African-American fiction), or to develop secret forms of knowledge or communication, as slaves once did. In the opening scene of Spike Lee's movie Clockers, street kids deliberately are shown to speak unintelligibly...
...simple: whenever he lost money as a government-bond trader, Iguchi allegedly plucked and sold bonds from Daiwa's own accounts or those of its customers, and then forged documents to make the trades look like authorized transactions. He seemingly sought no gain for himself other than to conceal his losses...
...based derivatives trader who racked up $1.4 billion in hidden losses that broke Britain's Barings Bank when they came to light last February. Like Leeson, Iguchi was simultaneously in charge of making trades and recording them in his firm's back office--a combination that enabled him to conceal the true nature of the transactions. But unlike Leeson, who has remained in a German jail while Singapore continues its effort to extradite him, Iguchi traded nothing more exotic than U.S. Treasury securities. They are "as plain-vanilla a financial instrument as you can find," notes Marc Cohen, managing director...
...have yet to see a cogent call for welfare reform that doesn't contain at least one serious ellipsis in its logic Usually, however--and unlike Whitman--their authors at least try to conceal such leaps of faith. --James Grimmelmann...
...Berkeley students wrote a program that can, in less than 60 seconds, defeat the encryption scheme used by Netscape's Navigator software to conceal information such as credit card numbers in transactions over the Internet. (Rumor has it that the authors of the cracking program did their handiwork after watching the movie Hackers.) The security flaw stems from Netscape's use of a 30-digit binary "key" to decrypt such messages; the company has since released a new version using a 300-digit key which is significantly harder to defeat...