His focus is on an obscure, Reagan-era executive order that serves as a foundational set of rules for the intelligence apparatus.
Meanwhile, the new season of obscure Shakespeare-era plays at Stratford's Swan has got off to a stronger start than anyone dared hope.
The amendment would have made changes in an obscure Depression-era law meant to protect the interests of bondholders in a corporate reorganization.
In short order, the Federal Reserve found an obscure Depression-era statute (the Gold Reserve Act of 1934, if you're keeping score at home), with an emergency fund attached to it, and used both to bail out the money market funds.
Proposed changes to an obscure Depression-era law are causing a ruckus among the Wall Street investment funds that are battling over the debt restructuring at Caesars Entertainment and other companies.
Lobbyists for Caesars tried several times to roll back an obscure Depression-era bankruptcy law that would have hampered lawsuits by bondholders who were fighting the casino operator over guarantees they had on the debt they held.
South Africa's government has in recent years taken to mimicking its apartheid predecessors, but nothing quite prepared most of us here for the decision on Thursday to charge 270 Lonmin miners with the murder of their own colleagues through an obscure apartheid-era law.
The few ancient records in N.F.L. encyclopedias date back to an obscure, leather-helmet era beyond fan consciousness.
(212-501-3000) www.bgc.bard.edu November "LIFE IN PERSPECTIVE: THE WOODCARVINGS OF RUPERT KREIDER" If this obscure Vietnam War-era artist's eye-popping works are any indication -- Brobdingnagian carvings that pump up the whole notion of woodworking -- nascent collectors pass up roadside souvenir stands at their aesthetic peril.
The reasons why they pioneered such risky lives, in such an inhospitable era is obscure.
Maintaining the Spanish locale, he moves the action from 1409 (an unremarkable year in an era of obscure power struggles) to the still-remembered Spanish War of Independence, fought against Napoleon and memorialized for the ages in the nightmare imagery of Goya's "Desastres de la Guerra".
