It's from a tradition of unnervingly confidential, light-voiced male singers: João Gilberto, Arthur Russell, Lou Barlow of Sebadoh, Elliott Smith, Jamie Stewart of Xiu Xiu.
The unregulated trade in gold is fuelling wars and brutal human rights abuses in places such as eastern Congo and Sudan, which is why it is important this story came to light (Confidential papers raise fears over conflict gold, 26 February).
A lawyer for James Risen, an author and a reporter for The New York Times, has asked Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. to withdraw a subpoena requiring him to testify about a confidential source, in light of the Justice Department's new guidelines for obtaining information from journalists in investigations.
Data analytics to uncover organizational efficiencies and customer trends will continue to be even more widely used, but there will also be greater emphasis on securing such data especially confidential information in light of multiple high-profile data breaches in 2018.
Much of the research is commercially confidential, never sees the light of day, and is carried out with the sole intent of generating future revenue streams.
There is, obviously, a US-UK intelligence aspect; but there is also an internal British quarrel about how much, if any, of the communications deemed at the time to have been confidential should see the light of day.
The scale of lobbying by tobacco companies came to light in leaked confidential documents from the cigarette company Philip Morris International, whose brands include Marlboro.
The regulatory deliberations are confidential, he said, and in light of that, the company believes that it is inappropriate to comment further.
The upgrade could speed up enrichment by as much as two or three times, the diplomat said on the condition of anonymity, in light of the confidential nature of the Iranian note.
The union local representing workers at New York City's public hospitals made $67,000 in unexplained cash payments to its longtime president, James H. Butler, over four years and paid $27,351 for his wife's airplane trips, many of them to the Caribbean, according to a confidential audit that came to light this week.
cooled); For confidentiality, the room must be completely closed during a confidential meeting; For energy savings, natural lighting, ventilation, heating and cooling are preferred to artificial lighting, ventilation, heating and cooling.
