1.   Sean Connery is over the top as one of the detectives, perhaps an effort to hide the shortcomings of acting partner Wesley Snipes.

2.   Still, government agencies are prone to trumpet successes and hide shortcomings, convinced that Congress opens its purse-strings only to winners.

3.   The lending then was mostly to industrial borrowers and the system seemed to work all right, or at least its shortcomings could be hidden.

4.   Using it to hide shortcomings is a different matter.

5.   Investigators are now looking into whether the colonel was pressured by superiors to hide the shortcomings of the Osprey.

6.   Investigators are looking into whether he was pressured by superiors to hide the shortcomings of the Osprey.