Word: hidden
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bombshell dropped on Oct. 5, when then Undergraduate Council President Beth A. Stewart '00 announced that she and Treasurer John A. Burton '01 had discovered a hidden windfall--$40,000 of students' money. It had been overlooked in a University bank account and had grown year after year...
...Harvard expedition searches for hidden treasures in Egypt
...nuclear missiles. It slips close to hysteria, though, when it says, for example, that every one of the 80,000 Chinese who travel annually to the U.S. is tasked by military-intelligence officials to glean technological tidbits, or that 3,000 U.S.-based "front" companies do the bidding of hidden Beijing connections...
...wandered away from the Yugoslav escorts, a little boy recognized a Western accent and ran to get his father. The man waved me inside. In a furtive whisper, speaking in Albanian with a few words of English, he said two Yugoslav tanks had been hidden in the village. Why bomb here? Because military police had been living in the Albanian houses. At night they stood outside those homes and fired rockets at the planes. Showing pictures of his children, the man said his family had left for Macedonia. He would join them soon. In Kosovo you are a potential target...
...Chinese friend would not budge. The options on the dinner table were 1) conspiracy--which, after all, answers human nature's need to blame a hidden hand, a deeper complexity of cause, and 2) stupidity, that great but underappreciated presence in human history...