The UN's information arms, from the secretary-general's official spokespersons right throughout the system, regularly withhold information from the media and the public with impunity.
At the opposite end of the spectrum, Mr. Studwell spent 10 years in China, working for a time for The Economist and The Economist Intelligence Unit, its business information arm.
Ms. Carbonneau, who reviewed dance for The Washington Post, sees her work as political in that information arms audiences in the "war against art" in America.
Analysts had expected a gain of 1.4 million barrels, according to a survey by Platts, the energy information arm of McGraw-Hill Companies.
What is so interesting about infographics today and the reason they've become so popular is the role they play in today's escalating information arms race.
In the years since that interview was conducted, Mr. Khan became a strong part of the information arm of the terror network's Yemen affiliate, Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
For Paul Hoffman, the former head of the Studebaker Motor Company, who administered the Marshall Plan in Europe, a "strong information arm" helped show that the "American assembly line" was superior to "the Communist Party line".
A few weeks ago I spoke with the CEO of an information and publishing company that just sold its pharmaceuticals information arm; industry profits have fallen to the point where they didn't see any growth there any more.
But the security forces wield overwhelming firepower, and while they have been unable to subdue the suburbs, some rebel fighters say they lack the intelligence information, arms and communication to advance.
That was the same day that top executives met with representatives from Jana and Ontario Teachers, who presented a plan to split the company into four groups: an education business, a media and information arm, S.&P.'s ratings and financial business and its Standard & Poor's indexes.
The resilience intervention reported greater increases in personal resilience than did the control arm at both postintervention and 3 months later; it also reported greater increases than the information arm did at the 3-month follow-up.
