Word: hides
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Toronto-based theatrical production company Livent, Inc.; by a federal grand jury; on 16 counts of criminal fraud and conspiracy; in New York City. The U.S. alleged that the partners, who produced such Broadway extravaganzas as Showboat and Ragtime, led an eight-year scheme to fake earnings or hide financial losses and siphon off some $4.6 million. In a separate civil complaint, the SEC charged the two with securities fraud. Drabinsky denied the charges and blamed the company's "new management" for the imbroglio...
...January aides were clucking over polls showing that she might pull independent women voters back to the G.O.P. fold for the first time in 20 years. They spent last summer puzzling through how she would cope with all the personal scrutiny politics brings--not because she has something to hide but because she hasn't. An adviser quipped that to make Liddy Dole seem more credible in this political climate, they would have to invent a sex scandal...
...have thought little about the enormous amounts of data that are collected and made public to the school about you, and you may not be bothered by the fact since you feel you have nothing to hide. But do you send all your mail on postcards? Conduct all your telephone conversations on speakerphone? Leave a note on the door when you leave your room giving your exact destination? Of course not. We all have a reasonable expectation of privacy on campus, a privacy that in most other respects is kept sacred...
...flashes of sparkle were present. Backlit against Robin Wagner's magnificent Art Deco set, the choreography of the swing members made the big production number "Le Jazz Hot" smoulder. And the two-level, four-door hotel rooms of the secnd act's set did allow for a funny screwball hide-and-seek scene. But one good song does not a great musical make, nor can one humorous scene sustain an entire comedy. It all seems so meager in relation to the possibilities, which is what makes it so disappointing. The very fact that 'Victor' is supposed to be a major...
Although I've lived in Europe for a long time, I've always been proud to be an American. But this vacation, for the first time, I found myself trying to hide the accent. I began to feel shame. Shame for our president. Shame for how he has weakened our country among nations. And shame because I felt ashamed. America is too great a nation for its citizens to live in shame...