Word: deceitful
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Maybe so, but the basics of grand, bone-jarring deceit cut across cultures - and decades. Like young Nick, Kerviel also devised a way to hide his trades from asleep-at-the-switch "superiors." And like Leeson, he disappeared for a few days, apparently holed up in a Paris apartment, just before the roof fell in. The comparisons are more than cursory. One of the lessons of Leeson (supposedly burned into the brain of trading desks everywhere) was to separate what banks call "the back office," where trades are processed and recorded, from the trading desks. Leeson had run the back...
...Still, as with other killings in Lebanon over the past three years, the truth behind Eid's death lies lost in the depths of Lebanon's Gordian knot of intrigue, conspiracy, prejudice and deceit...
...there will always be more than enough alpha types to go around, and our right to choose among them still gives us plenty of leverage about the kind of society we live in. But because ambition can never be naked in a political campaign, it must be clothed in deceit. And that does make a farce of a lot of what goes on in our democracy...
Empires, as they say, are fragile human creations that wither in the face of inevitability. The treacherous deceit of invincibility, which allows said empires a brief illusion of immortality, only leads to ruin when weaknesses in an empire become palpable pillars of harsh reality...
...they will be disoriented, pretends to be someone they know, and then asks intimate, invasive questions (“What are you wearing? Where are you? Where is your hand?”). At the least, it’s a cry for help; it’s also deceit, an invasion of privacy, and some form of sexual harassment. It’s for these reasons that in some states, including California, prank calling is considered a misdemeanor...