Then in 1986 Vietnam embarked on an experiment in openness called "doi moi" -- fundamental renovation -- and the world rushed in briefly, in the early 1990's, with more investment and aid than the country could manage or absorb.
Openness calls into question the assumptions behind the institutional practices that we have accustomed ourselves to take for granted.
His battery of recommendations insisted on greater openness and called for more scientific research.
Writing with sympathy for the ideals of communism, he denounced the Soviet regime for its denial of basic freedoms, defended intellectual openness and called for the convergence of capitalism and communism under a new world government by the year 2000.
A little more openness is called for as Bechtel graduates from the cost-plus contracting that defines most of its history.
The paper has been one of the leading voices calling for openness and reform in the kingdom.
He was thought to have raised particular ire by championing the Coptic Christian minority, by calling for openness in Egypt's famously murky elections and by attracting generous financing from western donors, including governments.The sentences, which included shorter terms in prison for six of his associates, have raised fears that Egypt's security services have widened their brief dangerously.
"For the first time in Italian history, the party system has given up making appointments in the dark, with no official candidates, and has instead accepted the principle of transparency and competence in decision making," crowed the Open Media Coalition, a group that has been calling for more openness in the selection process for Agcom and other regulatory panels dealing with media issues.
"For the first time in Italian history, the party system has given up making appointments in the dark, with no official candidates, and has instead accepted the principle of transparency and competence in decision-making," proclaimed the Open Media Coalition, a group that has been calling for more openness in the selection process for Agcom and other regulatory panels dealing with media issues.
And calling for more openness in government, as personified by Mr. Bloomberg's open-air office in City Hall, is a campaign theme that he clearly wants to make good on.
