Existing policies have cryptic and opaque definitions of laws that vary state-to-state and at the federal level.
Those engaging in contemporary debate over the current and potential benefits and adverse effects of medical tourism for destination societies generally turn to sorely inadequate government-reported medical tourism statistics – widely acknowledged to deploy opaque definitions and creative counting practices – to support their arguments (5).
But what if a low-tax OFC is shoddily regulated or its rules are opaque?By definition there are no reliable figures on money-laundering worldwide, because its perpetrators try to make the proceeds of financial crime indistinguishable from legitimate money.
An opaque biochemical definition, an insufficient functional characterization, an interpolated database description, and a beautiful 3D structure with a wrong reaction.
Reporting on North Korea, the world's most opaque nation, is by definition conjecture.
While the act does provide mechanisms for research access to patient records, the process is so convoluted and the definitions so opaque that many institutions, especially those without an archivist or librarian on staff, may bar access simply to protect themselves.
While there are a variety of efforts around the country to promote single payer health care, the definition of single payer remains opaque and confusing to the public.
In contrast, the quest for cures for schizophrenia seems to be limited while our definition of the disease remains a largely opaque scientific venture where clinical diagnosis is cast and dependent upon "the quicksand of symptomatology".
Like Bolaño's work, this definition of fiction is at once transparent and opaque, lucid and elusive.
And broadening the definition just a bit, Transparency International warns that excessive pay, opaque financial structures and offshore havens from financial regulation all work to undermine honesty throughout the system.
