That helped keep the charade going until news of Fastow's off-the-books paychecks emerged in 2001.
At a recent conference in Qatar, Mahmoud Abbas, Palestine's president, tried to stop the charade.
For the charade to continue, borrowers pretended they could pay and lenders pretended that they would be paid.
Robert DeNiro plays a spin doctor who hires Dustin Hoffman (as a Hollywood producer) to oversee the charade.
It's difficult to get very engaged by the charade of interplay in which these children are supposedly engaged.
But for the two authors of the charade, Filip Remunda and Vit Klusak, it was only the beginning.
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Assuming this gesture was not part of the charade, he needn't have bothered.
The habitual doctoring of books and records, the fictitious trades, the phantom accounts were the core of the charade.
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Still, the very fact that Mr Ben Ali is going through the charade suggests that he is responding to pressure for change.
We should end the charade that says there is a "local" phone business and that it is separate from the "interstate" phone business.
One of the reasons banks may have been willing to go along with the charade was the need to fulfill their quotas when it came to boosting SME lending.
These guys specialize in designing incentives, long-term this, short-term that, stock options, retirement, supplemental retirement, non-qualified whatever which is all part of the charade that must be acted out.
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Their main goal is to preserve the charade that she is a potential leader: Miss Megawati appeals to ordinary Indonesians because she is the daughter of Sukarno, Indonesia's first president.
After which, the blindfold was to be put back on and the whole charade repeated for the return journey back to the London studio.
According to the report, the SEC started the whole charade by delegating its authority over accounting principles back in 1938.
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Once again, Congress failed to stop the annual charade of scheduled Medicare physician payment cuts and short-term patches, which spends more taxpayer money to perpetuate a policy everyone agrees is fatally flawed.
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They are begging you to look beyond the two party charade and to a future that can be created by the people.
Eliot Spitzer tricked the public into thinking he was a no-nonsense prosecutor the same way the criminals behind the so-called Climategate charade are trying to trick the public into believing climate scientists are scoundrels.
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Hiring still takes too long, promotions come fast and easy with time on the job, and all but a handful of employees are rated fully satisfactory or better in the annual appraisal charade.
And this is partially our fault because the press still counts the applause and so lawmakers are forced to go through this charade because they know the next day the coverage will mention that number.
If you get to feeling like a flayed deer, use the international language of charade to bring it down a notch or two.
Ms. BOEGERS: While we didn't make it all the way to the finish line that we have an opportunity to celebrate, it's almost like the silver medal at an Olympic - and if we're denied that and it's just a charade and a pretence, the Obama campaign is going to be in trouble because people are going to leave here angry.
The whole dance is but a charade.
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Sam got another 2 years tagged on to the 20-year sentence for his charade.
Myanmar went through a similar charade once before, in the 1990s.
Christian Gerhartsreiter, a German immigrant whose elaborate charade as a member of the fabled Rockefeller oil family unraveled when he was arrested, is charged in the murder of John Sohus, who disappeared in 1985.
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