• Historic liabilities have to be honoured (and properly accounted for, rather than hidden off the government's balance-sheet).

    ECONOMIST: The public sector unions

  • Banks can exploit the regulations' inevitable blind spots: assets hidden off their balance sheets, or insurance (such as that provided by AIG) which enables them to profit by sliding out of the capital requirements the regulators set.

    ECONOMIST: The financial crisis

  • Hidden off the Silverado Trail near St.

    FORBES: Travel

  • Unlike Las Vegas, most of the action is right there on the site, and not hidden away off the floor in hotel rooms.

    FORBES: CeBIT Press Day: Forklifts, Concept Cars, Servers In A Safe

  • For example, using the armor's jump-pack accessory allows players to leap up to hidden spots and pick off enemies.

    CNN: Review: 'Halo 4' is franchise's best yet

  • Relationships with colleagues and giving back to the community are more important to women than salary, according to "The Hidden Brain Drain: Off-Ramps and On-Ramps in Women's Careers, " a study by the Center for Work-Life Policy, which was published in the Harvard Business Review last year.

    FORBES: Are Women Happy Under The Glass Ceiling?

  • In the incident aboard a Northwest Airlines flight making its final approach to the Detroit, Michigan, airport, a 23-year-old Nigerian allegedly attempted to detonate explosives hidden in his underwear, setting off a fire at his seat on the flight from Amsterdam, Netherlands.

    CNN: Obama vows to 'keep up the pressure' on terrorists

  • We bounce light off of visible parts into hidden parts and then measure the time and direction of returned light.

    CNN: A camera that can see around corners

  • The civil complaint lays out a dizzying array of transactions that Enron employed over a four-year period to make it appear that earnings were growing steadily and that the company was able to pay its debts--many of which were hidden from shareholders through the use of off-the-book and offshore partnerships.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • He had not hidden him anywhere, and no faerie had made off with him, or used his parts in a spell, or put him in a pie to eat.

    NEWYORKER: A Tiny Feast

  • But it has also set off a debate: Has Fenn truly hidden the treasure chest or was this, for the idiosyncratic, publicity-loving 82-year-old who loves to tell tales, just another way to have fun, a great caper to bolster his legacy?

    NPR: 'I Love Mysteries,' Says Man Claiming Hidden Gold

  • Expectations are the company will spin off some of its assets to unlock their hidden value.

    FORBES: This Global Packaging Company Carries A Lot More Hidden Value In Its Box

  • Federal prosecutors gave Sidley Austin a pass because, they said, most of Ruble's illicit work was done pre-merger and because post-merger he was told to knock it off but didn't and kept his activities hidden.

    FORBES: Informer

  • Meanwhile, Oakland Tribune columnist Daniel Borenstein notes that his city has levied what he calls a "hidden pension tax" on property owners for decades to pay off a municipal pension fund that went bust in 1976.

    WSJ: Steven Malanga: How Retirement Benefits May Sink the States

  • The British Crown Prosecution Service said it was a plot -- involving liquid explosives hidden in soft drink bottles -- that could have been pulled off.

    CNN: Three guilty in bombing campaign plot

  • But Hall had secretly tipped off the police who were waiting at the location where the body was hidden, the jury heard.

    BBC: Luke Harwood death: Three guilty of playing field murder

  • Investigators later described the hidden devices as very sophisticated and well camouflaged, and the plot was thwarted only thanks to a tip-off from Saudi intelligence.

    CNN: SHARE THIS

  • Soon after, her cargo of slot machines, spark plugs, clothing, tobacco, watches and car parts was silently removed and hidden in the haystacks, oatfields, lochs and caves of Stroma until the customs men and coastguards had cleared off.

    ECONOMIST: Shipwrecks and wreckers

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