Given all the internet sleuthing that has gone on, it's unlikely that a duo or group could have kept secret for this long how they devised the cryptographic protocols, peer-to-peer systems, and economic model that underlies Bitcoin.
Yet it is what underlies the ratings figures that is almost more important to the BBC hierarchy.
By one estimate, bore-holes provide 40% of the capital's water; and south Delhi's groundwater, which underlies the offices of India's Central Groundwater Authority, is being depleted by up to three metres a year.
Simon Segars, the chief executive of ARM, a British company whose technology underlies the chips in almost every smartphone, thinks that the phone is becoming a "hub" from which other connected gadgets will be controlled.
This helped foster an independent spirit that was evident long before oil; until the late 19th century, an Orcadian diaspora ran much of Canada, through its prominence in the Hudson Bay Company.Indeed, it was this that enabled the islanders to drive a hard revenue-sharing bargain with the oil industry, which underlies their wealth.
General disorder followed, including clashes in Dili between easterners and westerners.The present campaign for the influential but largely ceremonial presidency has only widened the rift that underlies all of this: that between Mr Alkatiri's Fretilin, which had been the independence movement's political wing, and Xanana Gusmão, the current president, who was its military leader.
Probably because cheering one's flag is still one of the event's main selling points, and a free market in athletes would endanger the national pride that still underlies the event's commercial success.
But he strongly denies J Street's second claim and the assumption that underlies it, which is that America's pro-Israel stance in the Middle East is primarily a function of pressure exerted by the Jewish community through the "Israel Lobby" in Washington.
How can vigorous attempts to colonise the occupied territories be reconciled with Israel's claim to accept 242 and the principle of land for peace that underlies it?They can't.
Sudan may want a seat on the Security Council, but it still drops bombs on UN aircraft.The contradictions spring from the power strucure that underlies all Sudan's politics.
But the trend that underlies and helps explain these matters is rarely talked about.
