Why are you being so secretive?

Apple is still very secretive with regard to the release date and the price.

This is perhaps unsurprising given the secretive nature of the illegal drug trade, and the Team accepts the expert judgements that the Taliban benefit from drug revenues.

The active power that information provides is typically the threat of exposure. Such information gives you power primarily in a secretive, opaque world where access to information is limited.

There would be fewer informal systems, and those remaining would have to be less secretive to compete for business with regulated remittance service providers, so allowing more scrutiny by authorities.

Facebook inadvertently raised this issue of emotional manipulation and unintended consequences indirectly and in one context, by being secretive about its research and not giving people the chance to opt out beforehand. (Now, that would have been a smart choice!)

In fact, there are five jobs up for grabs, so a complex but secretive discussion is being conducted between Europe s chancelleries over who might do what without disturbing the delicate balances between political families or between large and small states.

Though notoriously secretive, the operation is far removed from the Church s more sensitive, doctrinal core. Besides, the commission s members have impeccable loyalist credentials, which is also true of the cardinals appointed by Francis to look into broader issues of reform.

Loretta Napoleoni details her rare opportunity to talk to the secretive Italian Red Brigades an experience that sparked a lifelong interest in terrorism. She gives a behind the scenes look at its complex economics, revealing a surprising connection between money laundering and the US Patriot Act.

So, in a sense, we often talk about the value of protecting intellectual property, you know, building barricades, having secretive R D labs, patenting everything that we have, so that those ideas will remain valuable, and people will be incentivized to come up with more ideas, and the culture will be more innovative.

Nonetheless, recent events should compel China s leaders to reconsider the extent to which they control the country s economy. If they maintain their secretive decision making and continue to manipulate the price system for political ends, their chances of building a stable, resilient, and market oriented economy, underpinned by a major international reserve currency, will be seriously compromised.

It refuses to ascribe to Iran s secretive state an ideological rigidity that might not exist. Indeed, Iran has shown its ability to behave with startling pragmatism more than once, not least in its links to Israel and the United States during its war against Iraq in the 1980 s, and in its assistance to the Americans in the war against the Taliban in Afghanistan.