Word: masking
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...Jiang, have fueled theories that that President Hu and his predecessor are engaged in a factional power struggle. Thus when Jiang and Hu appeared together last weekend to celebrate the 70th Anniversary of the Communists' historic Long March, many speculated that they were making a show of solidarity to mask factional conflict...
...fire engine and rescue team from the Cambridge Fire Department arrived at the scene along with a professional ambulance, Burns said. The students recalled paramedics placing the baby on the stretcher and giving her oxygen. “The baby was tiny...the [oxygen] mask covered the entire baby’s head,” Reed said. The hospital could not release information about the condition of the mother or child due to patient privacy regulations established by the Health Information Protection Act. The two undergraduates said they ran into the woman by coincidence and did not play...
...like the failed No Child Left Behind Act, it’s because it takes its spirit from the same wrongheaded view of academic quality. Although words like “accountability” and “transparency” may on their face connote positive sentiments, they mask a serious misunderstanding about how to ensure that colleges are fulfilling their duty to society...
NICHOLSON: [To Scorsese, while lighting a cigarette] Hey, where's the f___ing gas mask today...
...opponents, such tactics mask an ideological emptiness that will show up sooner or later. "Technique doesn't replace politics. There have to be ideas, convictions, a discussion of the stakes," says former Prime Minister and two-time presidential candidate Lionel Jospin, whose disdain for Royal's approach led him to challenge her for the party nomination. (He withdrew from the race last week, removing a major hurdle for Royal.) An adviser to Strauss-Kahn issues a similar criticism: "What the polls measure is popularity, not competence. Socialists have a furious love of debate, and she's not debating. What does...