Word: concealments
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...market, the job market, the infrastructure -- it is ironic that some of the fiercest battles revolve around largely symbolic issues. Much of the tension arises from misunderstandings rooted in the clash of cultures. These days it is impossible even to formulate stereotypes about Asians or Hispanics, because those categories conceal much more than they reveal. Koreans and Japanese continue to deride one another; Peruvians resent being mistaken for Mexicans. The largest Asian group is not the Japanese or the Chinese but the Filipinos, who have different traditions...
...statement, and I wanted a French film sense." That means not rushing or spoon-feeding the audience, not forcing easy moral judgments through camera effects or the placement of actors in the frame. This is not, in Foster's words, "a $20 million nightmare"; her directorial hand does not conceal a joy buzzer. She caresses each movie moment as if it were privileged...
Thus, Fiers stated that orders to conceal information from Congress came "much more likely [from] Casey than Bob Gates...
Attitudes are beginning to change, however. Scientists are learning to look past the myth, superstition and ritual that often conceal the hard-won insights of indigenous peoples. Sometimes the lessons have come in handy: during the gulf war, European doctors treated some wounds with a sugar paste that traces back to Egyptian battlefield medicine of 4,000 years...
...party leaders bought their palatial government-owned country houses for ludicrously low prices. Former Politburo member Alexandra Biryukova reportedly paid only 19,000 rubles for her dacha west of Moscow, although its real value was assessed at 754,000 rubles. Communists even turned to capitalists in an effort to conceal or divert their cash. "The Central Committee and other party organizations have been investing finances in shareholding companies, joint ventures, commercial banks and other commercial structures of various kinds," according to an announcement by the Soviet State bank, which last week froze all party funds. The bank itself may have...