Word: concealing
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...particularly bad day for Ken Lay. As word circulated that the energy giant he founded was under investigation for balance-sheet shenanigans, the CEO tried to pull Enron's stock out of a tailspin by arranging a special conference call with analysts. "We're not trying to conceal anything," he told them. "I'm disclosing everything we've found." After Lay got off the phone, he gathered Enron's thousands of employees via a live webcast and video teleconference, and tried to reassure them too. "Our liquidity is fine," he said of the company that was about to flame...
Jefferson was captivated by the view from his mountain and didn't want it cluttered with outbuildings. His elegant solution was to use the slope of the hilltop to conceal the structures- kitchen, smokehouse, stables, icehouse, brewery, laundry-in a pair of wings extending from each side of the main house. From above, these dependencies form wide, L-shaped terraces. From below, the rooms open to the hillside and connect to the house by a covered passage that continues under the main house...
...said. But British backers of the constitution lament that by portraying E.U. negotiations as fights against wily foreigners, Blair has allowed anti-E.U. opinion in Britain to grow and harden. British Euro-skeptics think he's using red-meat rhetoric to conceal a major shift of power to Brussels. "The British government is clearly determined just to bulldoze through the facts and hope the media are too stupid to check the text," says Dominic Cummings, director of the New Frontiers Foundation, who counts at least 43 places where the constitution abrogates a current national veto over E.U. actions...
They ultimately proved that the Nixon White House had been involved in a conspiracy to conceal its role in authorizing the Watergate break...
...persisted. He issued a subpoena for several of the tapes, which ultimately proved that the Nixon White House had been involved in a conspiracy to conceal its role in authorizing the Watergate break...