They targeted mayors and city council members, obscure urban planners, low-level bureaucrats who issued permits — anyone with the power to thwart Wal-Mart's growth.
If instead you appoint a commission where a majority of members want to obscure what happened, and in fact want to protect the Wall St. system we have now, you both lose any chance of engaging the public and you make the people angry at both government and the bankers all the more suspicious.
Nominees at all levels of Washington's bureaucracy — 117 of them in all, including cabinet secretaries, judges and members of obscure oversight boards — are facing delays.
Several other ABC transporter family genes showed differential tissue expression patterns, although the function of these family members remains obscure (Additional file 3, Table 7).
However, the function in humans of many other members remains obscure and a more general involvement of MS4A family members as ion channel adaptor proteins in non-immune tissues is suspected [ 28].
"Of Inwit" served as its dark companion piece: Kaitlyn Gilliland, a former City Ballet member, her face obscured by her hair, staggered and twitched along a diagonal in a less close communion with the superb cellist Wendy Sutter and a Philip Glass score.
Structure in sandstones in the middle (Crow Head) member is largely obscured by a high density of Skolithos linearis domichnia.
"There are far too many instances of the department being lenient toward members who withheld or obscured the truth," Special Counsel Merrick Bobb wrote in the report.
In the diploid phase, members of a duplicated gene pair are retained or deleted at random in the two duplicated regions, obscuring their common past.
But that is a tall order technologically, let alone politically.Flash-bang stun grenades have limited effectiveness, leave "excessive smoke that obscures team member vision" and "ignite undesirable secondary fires".
