If mutual funds sold automobile leases and advertised only the down payment while leaving disclosure of the monthly fee to boilerplate that says "see the contract," the U.S. Federal Trade Commission would be all over them about consumer protection violations.
But after seeing good candidates drop out early, Cal State decided to leave disclosure to the discretion of the system chancellor and the trustee who heads the search.
That said, why not simply take the whole practice capable of abuse off the table by leaving disclosure of a grand jury subpoena totally up to the recipient?
The few 58/440 (13.2%) patients who stated that in general they preferred to leave disclosure of details up to the doctor, tended to be older patients more than 70 years of age (chi square = 26.01, df = 2, P< 0.0001), although paradoxically they still wanted to know certain specific details.
In the meantime, Congress should take the Supreme Court up on the one area it has left alone, disclosure requirements.
Editors of The New England Journal of Medicine said that they were puzzled by and skeptical of the JAMA data, but confirmed that the publication left such disclosures to the discretion of authors.
The disclosure left many financial institutions scrambling to sort through the data.
Rules which allowed for blanket disclosure left no room for common sense and let irrelevant and unreliable information ruin lives.
But that ambition also smacks of payback by politicians who were left smarting by disclosures in The Daily Telegraph about lawmakers' fraudulent expense claims.
The senator has also sought to regain his footing after the disclosures left him, at least initially, uncharacteristically bewildered and unsure how to respond, according to a close political associate.
