Word: concealment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...road. His aides say that their candidate will continue to pummel Hart "until we beat him." They realize that the strategy could suddenly turn sour, but they also recall that, when Mondale was on the high road, he began to lose, and badly. Taking the offensive helps Mondale conceal a fundamental weakness in his campaign: to many voters, the old-line Democratic Party that he stands for has no driving theme. At the same time, Mondale's verbal jabs all but drowned out Hart's attempts to explain his new ideas, which he must do to broaden...
Fear of legal reprisal has apparently led some hospitals to conceal decisions on life support so that no one can be held responsible for deciding to pull the plug. A New York grand-jury report last month charged administrators at a Queens hospital, widely recognized as La Guardia, with "shocking procedural abuses" in the care of elderly patients. According to New York State Prosecutor Edward Kuriansky, the hospital would put purple decals on the charts of patients who were not to be resuscitated should they start to fail. After death, the charts were destroyed so that there was no record...
...from bureaucratic pique. American ambassadors in Moscow had been kept in sterile isolation, and the Soviet desk of the department initiated the decision to take away Dobrynin's parking privileges as a means of getting the Soviets' attention. When Dobrynin entered my office, he managed to conceal any chagrin he may have felt as a result of being treated as an ordinary mortal...
...conservative minority on the old commission. Said Pendleton: "I sat at this commission for 18 months and got beat up all kinds of ways . .. Now [the new members] are here, and we are going to do the best job we can for the American citizens." Berry, who could hardly conceal her disdain for the chairman, said that the commission "is no longer the conscience of America on civil rights" and added, "I despair for women and minorities in this country...
...German army intelligence agents proved that Kiessling, a bachelor, had long frequented gay bars in Cologne. Un der German law, however, homosexuality is not sufficient cause for dismissing officers. Worner justified his action by arguing that Kiessling had denied his homosexual tendencies; if Kiessling was homosexual and sought to conceal the fact, he would be liable to blackmail...