Word: concealing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...anyone would believe he would break the law to try to keep secret information that he filed publicly just a few days later." Whitewater prosecutors have officially notified Lindsey, one of President Clinton's closest friends and aides, that they may seek to indict him for allegedly trying to conceal cash transactions during Clinton's 1990 gubernatorial campaign. Administration officials disclosed late Thursday that Lindsey has known for months of thepossible indictment. And so has President Clinton, who aides say even privately continues to give his fellow Arkansan full support. "The president has known the status of the inquiry...
...student at Harvard Divinity School and a community activist with the Boston-based Queer Asian Pacific Alliance, said gay Asian Americans face societal pressures to conceal their sexual identities and to maintain a "stoic forbearance...
...sources in the capital and at the Kennedy School added that a sensitive political situation in Washington has forced Ellwood to conceal whatever ambitions he might have...
Opponents argue that the scheme would introduce bad incentives into the system by tempting high earners to conceal income. What some of them would prefer to see is a gradual, across-the-board reduction of benefits. One way that could be accomplished is by ending the special protection against inflation granted to Social Security pensions, which are increased every year to offset the full amount of inflation. Cost of living adjustments in most private pensions and in workers' wages are limited to part, if any, of the annual increase in prices. Why should Social Security pensioners alone be fully protected...
Each side uses excesses committed by the other to justify its own atrocities. "If we don't kill them, they'll kill us," says Major Mohammed, a gendarmerie officer patrolling the streets of Algiers with a unit of "ninjas"--commandos who wear dark hoods to conceal their identity. They are the point men in what has come to be known as the "strategy of eradication," in which armed elements of the Islamic movement are hunted down. Says Mohammed: "It's kill or be killed...