The charges related to knowingly manipulating accounting rules and masking the enormous losses and liabilities of the company.
Heckmann bought most companies with US Filter's high-price stock, diluting earnings per share and masking the fact that most bottom-line growth was coming from acquisitions.
The WDCS says the frequency ranges of some noise sources of human origin may be blotting out other, biologically important sounds, preventing mothers and calves from staying in touch and masking sound cues for predators and their prey.
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Vocabulary should be a tool for communicating expertise, and not masking a lack thereof.
Advanced features include motion detection, camera tampering alerts, and privacy masking.
This could lead to misleading evaluation of national and local suicide prevention strategies and a masking of the effects of economic difficulties on suicide rates, they suggest.
But what I confronted back then were zip guns and Saturday Night Specials that were held together with masking tape and electrician's tape.
Likewise, the Dow of today is flat and nervous, masking carnage below.
Only when all the masking and etching is complete is the sacrificial gate layer dissolved away, allowing the gates (and the insulation layers between the gate and channel of each transistor) to be filled in.
His company doesn't sponsor projects, he said, but there was no harm in gathering up extra sandpaper, masking tape and grinder wheels to help a good cause.
He then looked right at me, his eyes burning with a mixture of tongue-in-cheek danger and mock fear, masking what I can now only imagine as disbelief.
In other words, by keeping domestic prices low, the Kirchner administrations have pursued the dual goal of masking inflation and keeping the masses happy, in typical populist fashion.
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In 2011, SEBI said that two Sahara real estate companies broke securities rules by issuing bonds to individuals between 2008 and 2011, but masking them as private placements.
He will not be exposed to undue risk or masking injections and any decision regarding his participation in the fifth Test will be made in conjunction with the ECB, his surgeon and the Lancashire medical team.
In the 1990s, Boston Market was then-known as Boston Chicken, a home-style buffet eatery that had a flourishing stock, multiple locations, and fervent growth, all masking the poor franchise sales made yearly.
While the Fed believes the US economy will "probably" return to more rapid growth, Mr Greenspan said it was still possible that war uncertainties were masking "persisting strains and imbalances".
Self-employment, in that case, is masking under-employment and unemployment.
Sound-masking system reduces noise and keeps conversations private.
It had to be put together from half a dozen towns, a church from here, a school from there, supplemented with mock-ups, masking mattes, blue- and yellow-screen and back-projection.
Rather than masking the trade offs between efficiency and redundancy, the wedges should illuminate them.
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The Federal Reserve, for example, was accused by the likes of Michele Bachmann and Patrick McHenry, both Republicans, of masking the deficit by helping the nation borrow at ultra-low rates.
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But is she just masking her insecurities behind the crazy hair and makeup and outlandish getups?
However, by the 1980s and 1990s, only a handful of groups were masking as Baby Dolls.
And right now the amazing improvements for most stocks compared with 2009 are masking the fact that things are just less bad.
One problem is that surgery can have an enormous placebo effect, masking a reality of meager benefits in exchange for the risk and cost it entails.
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