In 1921 the State Planning Committee (Gosplan) came into existence to advise the government and its economic alter ego, the Council of Labour and Defense, but planning was still a shadowy process.
FINALISTS -- William J. Broad and David E. Sanger of The New York Times, for "casting light on the shadowy process" of nuclear proliferation; the staff of Newsday, on Long Island, N.Y., for its examination of the role of hip-hop music in American life.
The shadowy process of selecting a new Italian president began on Thursday, testing the political prowess of the country's centre-left prime minister, Matteo Renzi, less than a week after elections in Greece rattled the European establishment.
But national security deportation is an extremely shadowy process and we need assurances from ministers that these powers will only be used for public safety and not for political signalling".
So we took the additional step of redacting as much identifying information as we could — knowing that any redaction we performed would be imperfect, but believing that there's a strong argument for distributing this, not only for its value in illustrating the Markoff case, but as a rare window into the shadowy process by which Facebook deals with law enforcement.
Defense attorneys celebrated the ruling as a step toward shedding light on and adding accountability to the state's shadowy execution processes.
Further complicating these multi-levelled layers is a shadowy parallel legal process operating behind the scenes, where political priorities can sometimes trump the pursuit of justice.
They knew the consequences a robust rule would have, and went to work in the arcane and shadowy rule-making process to carve out exceptions that you could drive trucks through, turnip or Mack.
The commission found earlier this month that top officials at the university ran a shadowy two-tier admissions process that favored the children of the wealthy and the well-connected, and that influence was particularly concentrated among the trustees.
"Everyone else can just be an 'artist', why do we have to have an 'urban' in the front?" An underlying factor in this de-urbanising process is the shadowy influence of Simon Cowell.
Laney knows that Cody Harwood, a shadowy Bill Gatechnocrattechnocrat, is somehow involved in this process, and that it will centre on the Bridge.
