After all the papering over, the fudging and the hopes that defied experience comes the reckoning.

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He also warned the workforce may see the report as papering over the cracks.

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But he is papering over the cracks between what he has always thought and what he has to say to the country.

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Big computer vendors like IBM have joined the telcos and other heavyweights in papering the convention center with brochures about their conflicting and confusing services.

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And the SEC could slam EY for, what looks like to me, papering over misleading disclosures with their quarterly review stamp of approval and for their bungling of the Matthew Lee investigation.

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We were just papering them over.

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