But some analysts have long complained that the flurry of deals and the opaque accounting standards of the Netherlands have muddied Ahold's reported earnings, making it difficult to get a true picture of the company's financial health.
This process facilitates the exploration of subtle associations between variables, population strata, or clusters of data elements, which may be opaque to standard independent inspection of the individual sources.
Even the House version of the AHCA, which was pretty opaque by normal standards, went through committees, was discussed for more than a month, and saw changes to it after conservatives objected to some elements.
We classify the parcels according to their size: small (main side lower than 20 cm), medium (main side between 20 and 40 cm), large (main side greater than 40 cm); we also associate an appearance attribute: opaque (with a standard, opaque colour), shiny (shiny, often coloured, surface).
Attraction to the scent of bags was tested using a Y-maze with three symmetrical arms (arm length: 60 cm; width: 12 cm; height: 11 cm; angle between each arm ∼120 degrees), made from standard opaque PVC wire housing, and described in detail in Bonadonna and Nevitt (2004).
Even for convicted criminals, the standards are opaque.
In a comment on television that was opaque even by French standards, Lionel Jospin last month hinted at his approval of a tax on cross-border capital movements.
Those tunes came to include opaque versions of the standards "Indiana" and "I Didn't Know About You," as well as four of Mr. Osby's own pieces and one by his pianist, Jason Moran.
Justices led by Roberts, meanwhile, argued that the standards remain opaque and that it's the Court's integrity that would be threatened by interfering with the political process to apply them.
