The industry is unregulated and opaque, and spends a lot of money in Congress to keep things that way.
The opaque language of spending bills makes it hard for outsiders to know where the money for each project goes.
The spending is opaque, and may have favoured FSLN members.
Asian leaders have complained that they were blamed for bringing the last crisis on themselves, with their misguided exchange-rate policies, opaque financial systems, profligate spending and corrupt politics.
It is the unaccountable, opaque way in which such spending is quietly slipped into legislation that he objects to, a system he said bred corruption.
I suspect there is an institutional problem with a powerful Treasury operating opaque and antiquated systems of spending controls, with no balancing force – and no obvious capacity for thinking long term about the economic future of the country.
At the basis of this whole point is we're not growing enough as an industry and the markets aren't growing enough, so we need to spend time on products and packaging and shopping experiences and advertising to drive growth, and yet we have all this time spent in this opaque media environment.
Chief among them is to beware the reckless spending, conflicts of interest and opaque practices of those seeking high profits.
He and the letter's other signatories, including several many prominent UK neuroscientists, favour individual project grants over the HBP's centralised spending, which they see as opaque, restrictive and poorly managed.
