Word: concealment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only 15 years, and thousands are being expended to repair its bleak, Brutalist facade, it occurs to me that the University, in all its puissance, has a felicitious opportunity to join the M.B.T.A. in upgrading Harvard Square: why not construct a massive neo-Georgian veneer over the building to conceal forever the cold concrete and steel form that is so reminiscent of the very worst of post-war Britain. Dr. T.C. Bardwell
Notwithstanding the potential profits, the industry has failed in one crucial respect--developing a safe method of producing these chips. It has been proven almost impossible to contain the arsenic gas used in the production of gallium arsenic. The industry has tried to conceal the stuff in silicon dioxide boats sealed in containers: unfortunately, no federal standards exist for either the boat or the container. Whereas the containers used to contain nuclear wastes go through vigorous testing before they are approved, the government does nothing of the sort for the gallium arsenic. Other types of safeguards are similarly unscrutinized...
...fornication." Though the Sephardim regarded Ben-Gurion as a messianic deliverer, he declared in a 1965 interview that " the Jews from Morocco have no education. They love their wives, but they beat them. The culture of Morocco I would not like to have here." Golda Meir hardly bothered to conceal her distaste for those from "countries that have not developed intellectually, industrially and culturally...
Along the way, the man who once declared that "my personality does not interest me" has picked up a host of nicknames appropriate to his many roles. For his dour countenance he came to be known as Grim Grom; for his ability to conceal his mood, Washington diplomats began in the 1940s to call him Old Stone Face. The sobriquet, former Secretary of State Dean Acheson wrote in his memoirs, "accurately described an impenetrable mask which may well have contributed to his amazing and unique record of survival...
...before the deployment. Soviet policy, Chernenko warned, was not subject to "transient vacillations" or dependent on the outcome of U.S. presidential elections. Said he: "Hints about some sort of 'calculations' on our part in conjunction with the elections in the U.S. are an attempt by someone to conceal his own reluctance to reach agreements...