Officials at the ministry and the institute acknowledged the close ties, but said the report's findings were neutral.
Ms. Slatkin acknowledges that her close ties to Mr. Deutch posed a serious problem for her in trying to deal with the agency's internal investigation.
But neither Obama nor Clinton publicly acknowledged their host's close ties to Bahati or the role The Fellowship Foundation played in inflaming radical homophobia in Uganda.
Stravinsky's complete ballet music for "Pulcinella" ended the concert in a gesture meant to acknowledge the orchestra's close ties to the Royal Danish Ballet and to the choreographer George Balanchine.
While acknowledging that conflicts could arise from such close ties with designers, Ms. Foley insists she is unbiased.
Only a few days ago, Republican strategists, including some with close ties to the administration, were acknowledging that Mr. Bush was having his worst stretch in political terms since early in his presidency.
Chet Lott, who played in a band in high school with Mr. Breaux's younger son, Bill, acknowledged the close family ties but said there were no plans yet for a business partnership.
Speaking at CNBC's Delivering Alpha conference in midtown Manhattan, Mr. Geithner acknowledged that European regulators had traditionally been more "indulgent" of their banks, given the institutions' close ties to their governments.
It also reflects its difficulty in striking a balance between acknowledging that the region has entered into an era of messy transition and maintaining close ties to its counter-revolutionary allies such as Saudi Arabia.
The pro-Kremlin government in Chechnya openly acknowledged the fissures between rival security forces as the southern Russian republic's Public Chamber condemned the Vostok Battalion, a unit with close ties to Russia's army.
