Privately, we were told, the Obama camp was livid.
Privately we're hardly ready either, HSBC's Future of Retirement report stated Australians are already estimated to run out of savings within 10 years of finishing work.
"We tend to advocate that people make the safer choice," Riffle said, referring to his group's campaign promoting marijuana as less harmful than alcohol, "but privately we're all about people making their own decisions".
Since the site is privately financed, "we are not under pressure to scale up very quickly," she said.
Most decision-makers on both sides of the Atlantic now privately believe we are in the business of managing failure, and that is how the surge looks.
Because the company is privately owned, "we are able to invest in mega trials without any concerns about how Wall Street will react," says David Nurnberger, senior vice president, human resources at Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, the company's US affiliate.
Charles Dallara, the managing director of the institute, quoted a central banker as saying, privately and sadly, "We are going back to a world of national banking".
(Admittedly, Schengen and American visas can still be shamefully hard to come by, even for citizens of ex-captive nations that are loyally Euroatlantic in outlook).What the EU will not say, but thinks privately, is this: We are supporting Kosovo's independence because of the chance that it will become more like us, and hence a better neighbour.
The message, one lab staffer privately remarked, was "we are family".
