Word: concealment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thought that the Soviets might be breaking the treaty by taking steps, not spelled out in the report, that could enable them eventually to conceal installations from U.S. spy satellites. When the U.S. complained, the Soviets stopped the activities...
...crisis. Michigan officials tried to convince the public that the PBB problem was unimportant. Fred Fry, an assistant to the Michigan Speaker of the House, said "State officials issued press releases consistently underestimating the scope of the problem." Fry added that the FDA encouraged the state to conceal the problem...
...Brown's penchant for diatribes against the University of California, which he's attempted to reform--without ever specifying what reforms he wants--by shaking up the university's Board of Regents. Ever-sensitive to potential threats against academic freedom, Lewis suggested that Brown's eclectic approach may conceal a strong, none-too-latent anti-intellectual streak...
...Night, whom O'Neill modeled on his own father. Con dwells on Wellington's praise of his combat heroics as Tyrone dwells on Edwin Booth's praise of his acting. Both men are united in a fear of the poverty of Ireland and a desire to conceal their peasant origins. Both loathe the modern currents of their times. Melody despises the Jacksonian rabble just as Tyrone reviles such (to him) modern playwrights as Strindberg and Ibsen...
...from courts and regulatory agencies in recent years. Last week that trend was significantly advanced by Jus tice Department felony indictments against Chicago-based Velsicol Chemical Corp. and six present and former employ ees. The executives, all of whom could face prison terms, are charged with con spiring to conceal from the Environmental Protection Agency the results of tests that showed that two widely used pesticides may cause cancer in humans. The indictment is the first ever sought by the EPA against a company for covering up adverse information about a product...