The creation of an academy too often seems like a secretive process between sponsor and secretary of state that shuts out local communities.
For years, as diamonds from African war zones fueled conflict, African diamond-trading has been associated with secretive deals between warlords in the bush and unscrupulous buyers who trade gems for weapons.
Everything is being muddled along; there's a three way tug of war between the Islamists the liberals and the Military Council over who gets to write the new constitution and pressure from Tahrir square and strikes are having as much effect on announcements and pronouncements as secretive negotiations between various political forces and the Generals… it's is all very murky and blundery.
The allegations form part of a long-running investigation by American authorities into the secretive relationships between Swiss banks and their rich customers.HBOS rebuffed an attempt by two former Scottish banking chief executives to scupper its rescue merger with Lloyds TSB.
For decades, the battle for power has been conducted not in parliament or on the hustings, but in secretive tussles between obscure rival factions of the party, over which the Japanese voter had little more say than a Chinese factory-worker has over the membership of China's Politburo.
In another segment, Hampton details how he discovered the ongoing secretive relationship between Ensign and his wife via the senator's cell-phone.
Another sort of billing scale for doctors, involving so-called Evaluation and Management codes, was unveiled two decades ago as part of a secretive deal between Medicare officials and the AMA.
In particular, women spoke of the sometimes sensitive or secretive period between planning pregnancy and actual conception, affecting their willingness to tell others, including health professionals about their plans, and thus the open consideration of preconception health (box 4).
It was a clash of cultures, a face-off between secretive capitalists and hard-nosed politicians yesterday, as hedge funds faced the Treasury Select Committee on the banking crisis.
And then there is TTIP, the secretive trade deal between the EU and the US, a major bugbear for those on the left.
