1.   The insurance companies hid behind my old coats and baggy pants and my boots with the run-over heels.

2.   And, they say, pooling allows companies to hide the actual cost of an acquisition.

3.   As the evidence mounted that tobacco company executives were hiding evidence nicotine was addictive, Wigand acknowledged he chose to look the other way.

4.   Accounting standards are lax, enabling companies to hide under-the-table payments or their losses in affiliated companies.

5.   Companies can now hide losses by transferring devalued securities to these funds.

6.   Companies often hide discrimination under the guise of layoffs.

7.   Corporate racketeering is rampant in Japan, where poor disclosure and lax regulatory oversight allow companies to hide damaging information, leaving them vulnerable to sokaiya.

8.   Corporate racketeering is rampant in Japan, where poor disclosure and loose regulation allows companies to hide their mistakes, leaving them vulnerable to professional extortionists.

9.   Corporate racketeering is rampant in Japan, where poor disclosure and loose regulation allows companies to hide their mistakes, leaving them vulnerable to professional extortionists known as sokaiya.

10.   Current accounting rules allow companies to hide that expenditure, which means that the balance sheets they put out are dishonest.