Word: concealment
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...During the Harvard-Yale game two years ago, five guys came in wearing Harvard shirts and trying to conceal five entire cases of beer. The underage ones always want to drink with the other people here. Sometimes we’ll catch them pouring the contents of a flask into their Coke bottles...
...horrified and embarrassed" by the mud-spattered image of Citi, which stands accused of unethical and illegal behavior on multiple fronts. Among the alleged transgressions: doling out shares of hot IPO shares to WorldCom executives in a bribelike manner to win banking business, devising complex financing to help Enron conceal debt and having stock analysts hype the shares of companies that were investment-banking clients. While Salomon Smith Barney was making the VIPs rich, another Citi subsidiary was charging consumers high fees and above-market interest rates on loans, according to charges Citi just settled with the Federal Trade Commission...
...embarrassed" by the mud-spattered image of Citi, which stands accused of unethical and illegal behavior on multiple fronts. Among the alleged transgressions: doling out shares of hot IPO shares to WorldCom executives in a bribe-like manner to win banking business, devising complex financing to help Enron conceal debt and having stock analysts hype the shares of companies that were investment-banking clients. While Salomon Smith Barney was making the VIPs rich, another Citi subsidiary was charging consumers high fees and above-market interest rates on loans, according to charges Citi just settled with the Federal Trade Commission...
...Deception: Iraq never came clean to the UN inspectors it has forbidden from entering the country since 1998. It has "learned lessons from previous UN weapons inspections and has already begun to conceal sensitive equipment and documentation in advance of the return of inspectors...
...tons of chemical agents, dismantled more than 800 Scud missiles and wiped out Saddam's budding nuclear program, but they didn't come close to uncovering everything.) The U.S. has even less confidence in inspections after a hiatus: Saddam has had the past four years to hone his concealment skills. In eight years of efforts to uncover Iraq's stockpiles, "we taught them what we could find, and they learned how to conceal, deceive and deny," says David Kay, former chief nuclear inspector and an outspoken critic of the effort. The Iraqi weapons program now "is a lot smaller...