Word: concealment
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...knows why the Clintons appear to have ignored the lesson of Watergate: the cover-up is invariably worse than the matters the participants seek to conceal. What we now do know, however, is that Mrs. Clinton is more like Mr. Clinton than anyone ever realized. Slick Willie, meet Slippery Hillary...
...during the succeeding decades % he passed increasingly precious secrets, at blood-chilling personal risk. In Moscow he brazenly stole from the GRU stockroom a special kind of self- destructing film that he used to photograph secret documents, as well as hollow, fake stones in which to conceal the film in meadows for pickup by U.S. spies. To signal his handlers, he would ride the tram past the U.S. embassy and activate a miniature "burst" transmitter hidden in his pocket. During postings abroad, he would pass information face to face: in the back alleys of Rangoon or among the bulrushes along...
...started out looking like a rare winner for the White House. Whitewater seemed poised to fade from the spotlight: House Banking Committee chairman Henry B. Gonzales proved he could stage farce on a grand scale by holding two days' worth of hearings that were designed not to inform but conceal. Gonzales opened the session with the strong suggestion that they were a waste of time and the confident assurance that "it is doubtful that any ethical standards were violated." The chairman prevented Republicans from raising questions about most aspects of the scandal and gaveled a Congressman out of order...
...might to sound reasonable, Zhirinovsky could not quite conceal his real sentiments. He rejected accusations that he was anti-Semitic, yet a few sentences later he allowed that there were too many Jews among Russia's democratic forces. Nor could he help speaking disparagingly of non-Russians from the Caucasus and Central Asia. Zhirinovsky chastised Russia's new rich, but his entourage included two young bankers from St. Petersburg who were scrupulously recording the scene with a video camera...
...about sexual orientation. Yet many gays still fear that acknowledging their sexuality may hurt their chances for promotion, and stay closeted even at firms that vow equal treatment. A 1992 survey of 1,400 gay men and lesbians in Philadelphia found that 76% of men and 81% of women conceal their orientation at work...