And in the highly regulated world of public corporations, he openly awarded tens of millions of dollars of contracts to friends and relatives, including about $50 million for his wife, who decorated and designed many of the nearly 450 branches.
El Paso was simply an attempt to gin up the Hispanic vote as part of an openly political two-city, three-event campaign swing in preparation for 2012.
Most of them were still slightly underage, so openly bringing six-packs of beer was a recipe for trouble.
Some companies openly advertise two-week notice periods, while other companies' contracts state only that they will "endeavour" to provide 28 days' notice.
Every Friday lunchtime, as men gather at the mosques near Mardan for prayers, a Lashkar commander makes an impassioned speech about the fight in Kashmir and openly collects thousands of rupees in donations.
It has adopted the most despotic and vicious methods to keep these countries under strict control and stationed massive numbers of troops there, and it has even openly dispatched hundreds of thou sands of troops to trample Czechoslovakia underfoot and install a puppet regime at bayonet point.
But the main reason most in Washington recoil against a carbon tax is political: few are willing to openly advocate billions of dollars in new taxes at a time of economic distress, even though a cap-and-trade program also means higher energy prices.
This time, it's openly gay 44th Ward Alderman Tom Tunney.
Twenty years ago it would have been impossible to imagine an encyclopedia written by millions, openly and freely collaborating via the internet.
The time to start taking Apple, Mercedes, Nissan, Tesla, General Motors or any other potential driverless car maker seriously is when they have the confidence to leave their hidden test tracks and openly log the millions of road miles necessary to teach their cars how to drive.
