His office is in Apple's design studio, protected by a 10ft-long internal vestibule that obscures all the prototypes and work from all but the permitted to enter.
But, nonetheless, the unthinking use of the term al-Qaida, as has so often been the case in the past, obscures rather than illuminate the real chaotic and fractured, if still dynamic, nature of modern Islamist militancy.
Everyone now knows that the two sources of revenue go into a single homogeneous pot – but failing to merge them obscures the fact that the low NIC threshold means workers earning just £149 a week end up paying what is effectively income tax.
Federal law states that an organization such as the NRA cannot solicit money for itself and then deliver that money to its Pac – an action that obscures the beneficiary of a donation from the donor.
Not since the Netscape IPO in 1995, which kicked off the dotcom era, have techies been so excited.But the IPO hype around Google and its likeable and soon-to-be fabulously rich founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, obscures a more subtle point.
But it risks injecting unnecessary belligerence into the discussion, and it obscures critical aspects of the currency dynamic.The context of both of the pieces quoted above is that the prevailing pattern of trade before the recession must come to an end.
That number obscures much deeper cuts in some departments, necessitated by government protection for the budgets for schools, the National Health Service (NHS) and international aid.
In other words, some 90% of this software is clutter that obscures the few features people actually want.
It's because it's in the interest of certain individuals," said José Blanco, the minister of public works.In this section The spectre that haunts Europe The labours of Hercules So hard to bend Muddle obscures message ReprintsMr Zapatero, now in his second term, lacks a majority in parliament.
"Hughes's enormous shadow obscures many aspects of Plath's life and work," he explains.
The mythology of the first president obscures the lessons he might teach to the current inhabitants of the city that bears his name.This is a shame.
