The Guardian discovered that BAE was paying secret sums of money to confidential agents all around the world through a global system of offshore anonymous companies.
The volume of those very secret sums is impossible to determine, though the enthusiasm among, say, rich and conservative Sunni Saudis for thwarting both an infidel superpower and the perceived influence of Shia Iran in Iraq must be pretty strong.
In 1951, Dos Passos having moved to the right politically, the F.B.I., on a page stamped "SECRET," summed up its file material in a memorandum that concluded: Recommendation: A review of the above information reflects that although Dos Passos was probably a Communist [the F.B.I. erred in this assumption] and subsequently a Trotskyite, he has in recent years become definitely anti-Communist.
Apple Computer also paid a still-secret sum for the privilege.
Publicist Max Clifford received a £1m payout and Gordon Taylor, the chief executive of the PFA, received a secret £700,000 sum in 2008 in a deal approved by James Murdoch.
When James Wright--whosonson is poet Franz Wrighthatemarks this his own father's "song remains secret," he sums up the basic aim of all of the poets: to let the father speak, again or at last, through the poem.
"I'm starting to think this is part of the norm now". Once relegated to jobs involving military secrets, large sums of money or close contact with children, criminal background checks are becoming more routine for many types of jobs--despite concerns about accuracy.
Outside Café Rouge, where my soup and salad for a lead-in price of £9.95 was excellent, Jennifer Chainey summed up the secret of Center Parcs' success: "If the kids are happy, we're happy".
"The secret," he says, summing up both safe driving and the lure of taking to the open road in an R.V., "is always keep your eyes on the horizon".
The target sum, a secret due to the blind bidding process, sits below the Corus asking price of £500,000.
Although it is a SONG contest, the real secret is in the sum of the parts - song, performance and staging – coming together perfectly at the contest, as did Conchita's 'Rise Like A Phoenix'.
