Always check for concealed damage.
From 2010 to 2012, according to the agency, Mr. Chin concealed the price at which Goldman bought various mortgage-backed bonds and resold them at higher prices, with the company keeping the difference.
Iranians complained that the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (as the company also became known) concealed its pricing policies, withheld royalties through bookkeeping tricks, resisted training Iranians for managerial posts, and proved indifferent to environmental concerns (even today, oil keeps leaking into Shatt-al Arab, the estuarial waters dividing Iran and Iraq).
Making his keynote speech in Brighton last week, the Labour leader looked like Father Christmas handing out presents, carefully concealing the price tags for fear of denting the euphoria.
New Labour's Orwellian public-private "partnerships" are more concerned with granting lucrative long-term contracts, often to mates of the government, often without adequate tendering, usually under the secret veil of "commercial confidentiality", and generally in a way that conceals prices and suppresses the possibility of competition in the future.
Production subsidies do not raise prices and therefore do not curtail domestic demand, and the cost of the protection is not concealed in higher prices to consumers.
Seeking to conceal their price-fixing activities, employees from freight companies like United Parcel Service and Kuehne & Nagel used nicknames like Head Planter, Gardener, Cat Weasel and Horticulturalist, the European Commission said Wednesday.
Adam Smith - so beloved by the people who are changing the nature of commerce with fees, concealed charges, predatory pricing, tips and free labor - was a canny Scot who liked to know what he was getting for the money he was paying.
The fund also joined a class-action suit in the United States last year when it decided to pursue Biovail, a pharmaceuticals group based in a Toronto suburb, which shareholders say artificially inflated its share price and concealed the truth about its financial health.
In the October segment, a North Korean man carrying a concealed camera asks the prices of shoes, secondhand clothes and fish on sale in the stalls.
