Two female employees "engaged in brief sexual relationships with industry contacts," the reports' cover memo said, adding that "sexual relationships with prohibited sources cannot, by definition, be arms' length".
"NHS England is supposed to be arms length of the Department of Health and political influence.
Alexander says the process through which the government adds and removes countries from a secretive list of places where it shouldn't be shipping people off to is "arms length" from him.
The relationship between the board and parents was arms-length at best, said Ephraim Emmanuel, the president of the parents association and a newly elected member of the board of directors.
While the details of the transaction between Hercules and the buyer are subject to a confidentiality provision, the company can assure investors that the purchaser is not an insider and the transaction was arms-length.
In case after case, it makes clear that Enron signed sweetheart arrangements -- and notes that in some cases people who were representing Enron in what were supposed to be arms-length negotiations were secretly collecting millions from the partnerships.
"Sexual relationships with prohibited sources cannot, by definition, be arms-length," the report notes.
This would remain publicly owned but would be arms-length from the state and would be free to set salaries and borrow money as it saw fit.
Ideally, all staff should be separate and all relationships between USGBC and GBCI should be arms-length and contractual.
The federal government frequently appeals cases to the Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB) and the Citizenship Commission, and both are designed to be arms-length from politicians and bureaucrats.
Even if Christie was at arms length on the bridge closures, his fingerprints are all over this.
