Word: secreting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...buying out their cash-strapped local partners, thus positioning themselves to reap all the profits from a future upturn. In South Korea, Coca-Cola has taken over the bottling and distribution businesses of three former partners--Doosan Beverage, Woo Sung Food and Honam Food--and it is no secret that Coors is negotiating to take full control of Jinro Coors Beer. South Korea is one of a tiny handful of troubled Asian countries expected to resume some positive growth, however small, by late...
...assault the U.S. has suffered overseas since the bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut in 1983. Though Washington retaliated 13 days later, with cruise-missile strikes at Osama's base in Afghanistan, U.S. officials are still licking their wounds. The bin Laden attacks came despite a four-year secret campaign by the U.S. government to contain and control his activities--a frustrating war of attrition in which Washington has both won and lost battles. American agents have tracked, arrested and interrogated members of Osama's terror cells in dozens of countries. Now two government inquiries...
...sound more like a secret society than a Harvard political organization, but some students charge that these phrases aptly depict the Student Advisory Committee (SAC), the governing body of the Institute of Politics...
...hard-charging investigative judge of Spain's National Court. Two years ago, he began looking into human-rights abuses against Spanish citizens in Argentina, which were linked to Chile by a scheme called Operation Condor. With this plan, Pinochet and other South American junta leaders pooled their deadliest secret-police units to crush resistance to their rule. Garzon concluded that Pinochet is not covered by the traditional legal tenet, called sovereign immunity, one aspect of which protects national leaders from prosecution. Garzon argues that it does not apply because murder and torture are not legitimate parts of a head...
...believe Moses was a creation of the ancient Hebrews' binding together their own national epic out of the tales of neighbors. They point out that a birth narrative of Sargon of Akkad, a Mesopotamian King who ruled in the millennium before Moses, reads, "My priestly mother conceived me, in secret she bore me. She set me in a basket of rushes, with bitumen she sealed my lid." There is also the Egyptian legend of the god Horus, who is hidden in the Nile delta by his mother Isis to protect him from the wrath of his uncle Seth...