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Those things don't exist now. I think right now they're much more transparent in their accounting for their economy.

Cynthia Brown

It changed from a semi-secret occupation without government regulation to something that is transparent, with annual reports and public disclosure. That's a very large change. In the trading area, especially, there was a lot of secrecy.

Martin Mayer

We are 100 percent committed to being the leader in assortment, in helping customers complete their projects. The changes that take place will be transparent to the customers.

Peter Harris

It's a country that's accustomed to elections every four years. Clean, crystalline, transparent elections.

Oscar Arias Sanchez

The mayor's office involvement was only to ensure the appropriate community outreach took place. Other than that, the process was fully transparent.

Peter Ragone

It is a violation of our prohibited services policy … which includes no virtual relationships. We have the policy in place to protect our community members. EBay strives to have a clean and transparent marketplace.

Catherine England

The United Nations is of the view that these elections were transparent and credible.

Craig Jenness

Given Mozilla's open and transparent approach, we are very detailed on how we publish our vulnerability reports, and we list each vulnerability separately. Other vendors don't. Other vendors often combine multiple vulnerabilities, for instance, into one security bulletin.

Chris Beard

Where everything is transparent, so you can see how stuff works. Robots or multimedia displays would show you how it works.

Marshall Brain

I think we should be as transparent as we can be. It's important for the students to know. It helps them prepare for what's coming down the road here.

Terry Strieter

This is a just and transparent court.

Munir Hadad

So the building is transparent. The library is in the park and the park is in the library.

Kay Runge

The government has to understand it can't turn its back on this civic demand, the citizens' demand for clean and transparent elections.

Antonio Ledezma

What this system endeavours to do is to provide some factors which outline the discretion, which explain the discretion and make it accountable and transparent.

Adrian Anderson

Our country moved to electronic voting in public elections before the technology was ready, ... This center will develop the fundamental science necessary for secure, accessible, trustworthy and transparent voting.

Avi Rubin

This white paper was issued to ensure that the public and others within healthcare have detailed information about how these hospitals are being evaluated and rewarded. The clinical indicators, evaluation methodology and other aspects of this project are entirely transparent and based on the best clinical evidence available today.

Stephanie Alexander

For configuration, we have dual-boot encryption and transparent updates. Dual boot allows the PROM to hold more than one configuration to boot the FPGA. We support the encryption of data in the PROM and decryption of that as it comes into the FPGA.

Gordon Hands

But the development that government will support is that which is transparent and adheres to the laid down procedures and not one which inconveniences other sectors of the nation or raises serious suspicions.

Vernon Mwaanga

You need to raise the money to run an effective campaign. People know that I've always been pretty transparent and that's why they give money to me. They trust me to run an honest government.

Barbara Perez

Our goal is to reduce our impact on the environment while engaging consumers to take action. This packaging and labeling initiative should make our industry more transparent and give consumers the information they need to make a smart buying decision.

Jeffrey Swartz

Society is becoming less and less transparent. People no longer know where decisions that substantially affect their lives are taken, nor by whom, nor how.

Georg Henrik Von Wright

The process of any investigation should be transparent and those being accused should have the right to appeal.

Fang Zhouzi

The New Forces say that there cannot be transparent, secure and undisputed elections by October 30 because the conditions today are not in place.

Sidiki Konate

What the Fed is trying to do, by being more transparent and more communicative, is highly desirable. But there are going to slips along the way. Ben will learn and the markets will learn.

Lyle Gramley

There are good prospects that in 2006, the U.S. will propose a rule to open the border to Canadian cattle and beef over 30 months, effectively bringing the market back to its free, transparent and competitive position.

Alexander Moens

I think it's sort of transparent. You don't really see it, and it sneaks up on you.

Cliff Weathers

We need to have clear and transparent answers to show full cooperativeness towards the war crimes tribunal and enable access to our archives, which will be assessed as a great advance in cooperation.

Rasim Ljajic

That REIT is a fairly transparent view into what is happening in hedge funds sitting on a lot of fixed-rate assets financed with short-term assets. You are going to see significant issues in any type of company that has this type of trade on.

Jim Fowler

We want to stay friendly with China. We would like to ask China to be a little more transparent.

Yoshinori Ono

That's the ultimate irony. Most of these claims would never have been made if the institutions and the collectors have not been this open and transparent.

Peter Marzio

The vital importance of this ministry demands a professional and transparent minister who has no links to any party. If he is a technocrat, that will ensure that his loyalty is with Iraq.

Asim Jihad

Vietnam is becoming more transparent, and decision-making is more accountable.

Frederick Burke

Eyes so transparent that through them the soul is seen.

Theophile Gautier

I think the key is to share the information you have when you have it with the public, with the press, with regulatory or governmental officials. That's important, to be open and transparent with communications.

Rob Baskin

Domestic Western politics are much more transparent than before.

Thomas Hegghammer

We're going to be very transparent and let them know any possible thing that happened.

Robert Henderson

We take our service and private brand it to their environment, so as orders come in we run a large network underneath and we take orders from all our partners, ... It's all transparent to the user.

Jim Rose

This is all just a transparent effort by the tobacco companies, insurance companies, the Chamber of Commerce (and others). The real story is that they're trying to choke off the one real consumer advocate this state has.

Harvey Peyton

The new banking code requires lenders to be more transparent about charges, the OFT research pre-dates this initiative.

Sandra Quinn

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Some of them are matte jersey, some of them are chiffon mixed with lace that gives the impression that they are very, very transparent but very, very light.

Carolina Herrera

I wanted to do a very slender building, and a very transparent one.

Santiago Calatrava

I am very impressed with the rapid, transparent and effective response that has been put in place here in Van and in Turkey more broadly.

Ann Derse

Agencies should be able to accept bids from any company that can provide the desired product or service. Government earns the best value for taxpayer dollars through a competitive, transparent, and accountable bidding process.

Tom Schatz

Twenty-five thousand of the neediest students don't receive state aid. What we would like to see is that state grants are transparent for students so they can do their financial planning for college, and it can be transferred between institutions and that they are given to the neediest students.

Diane Lindner

What has been made clear to the world and the people of Pakistan is that under the present regime general elections in 2007 cannot be free, fair and transparent.

Raza Rabbani

The idea that CNIGA should be drafting or crafting anything that binds other tribes in terms of compact negotiations is pretty transparent to me. It's the big tribes that don't want other tribes to get compacts. They want to control that process.

Larry Stidham

Clematis plants were planted at the bases of the cables to create a semi-transparent walkway of greenery and flowers, which have yet to mature. Benches still need to be installed, and the cascading pools around the causeway won't work until next spring.

Mark Donovan

The direct consequence of having carried out transparent elections ... is a calculated attack, scorn, insults and finger-pointing.

Jorge Rodriguez

The important thing is that we have to give the BRR the opportunity to work as optimally as possible, in a transparent manner and with a mind open to criticism.

Teuku Riesky Harsya

Under Chairman Greenspan, monetary policy has become increasingly transparent to the public and the financial markets, a trend that I strongly support.

Ben S. Bernanke

It's a transparent effort to pry money from our company even though we've always acted properly and the facts are on our side. We will vigorously defend ourselves in court if needed.

Nick Iammartino

As a result, the droplets flatten and merge into a uniform transparent sheet rather than forming countless individual light-scattering spheres.

Michael Rubner

The district is trying to become more financially transparent. That is why this stuff keeps coming out. Hopefully, the budget will be a good example of financial transparency.

Larry Snow

This meeting was a transparent meeting - previously known to the authorities - of those working towards peace and justice in the region.

Kolawole Olaniyan

Smile and others will smile back. Smile to show how transparent, how candid you are. Smile if you have nothing to say. Most of all, do not hide the fact you have nothing to say nor your total indifference to others. Let this emptiness, this profound indifference shine out spontaneously in your smile.

Jean Baudrillard

Maryland is on the verge of enacting legislation that will ensure transparent elections that voters can trust. When HB 244/SB713 becomes law Maryland will move from a state with the least secure and least transparent election system to a state with one of the most secure and transparent systems.

Bob Ferraro

That's the kind of exchange you want to have with a country that has not been that transparent.

Lawrence Di Rita

The client benefits with an integrated system that is simple and transparent.

Richard Kiefer

The U.N. is of the view that the elections were transparent and credible. It was conducted in accord with international best practices. We see no justification for any rerun of any election.

Craig Jenness

We've been as transparent as possible. We felt like we had to be as open as possible. This is about patient safety for us.

Bert Kelly

Originally they thought this was yet another instance of them being put on the spot to prove how reformed they can be, how transparent they can be, how democratic they can be before they are even allowed to consider talking peace.

Rosemary Hollis

Hamdi will have a fair and transparent trial. Public opinion is one thing, judicial authority is another.

Paolo Iorio

I find Greg to be sincerely interested in making state government more transparent and accountable to citizens. This, of course, puts him at odds with his Democratic leadership, but you can always count on him to challenge the modus operandi in Harrisburg when good government is at stake.

Matthew J. Brouillette

The business of finance is changing from being a largely transactional and opaque business to being a relationship-oriented, transparent partner to clients and customers [business]. Savvy marketers will help finance firms forge stronger, more meaningful relationships with their customers and help them further differentiate themselves to prospects.

Samantha Lucas

There is no transparent understanding of what is going on. How is this supposed to work? What are the rules?

Ayesha Siddiqa

All the means of action - the shapeless masses - the materials - lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The league's proposal today was a transparent attempt to impose on our December 9 proposal the effects of their twice-rejected February 2, triple-cap proposal, ... The NHL knows that our December 9 proposal was never designed to meet the effects of their triple-cap proposal and that at least one of the stipulated events would be immediately triggered.

Bob Goodenow

Observer groups whose job it is to asses the quality of elections, including international observer groups have acknowledged these elections were transparent and conducted in accordance with international best practices.

Craig Jenness

It's all up front. He just became increasingly uncomfortable in this increasingly transparent environment.

Charles Sanders

We're observing at wavelengths where the galaxy is more transparent, and we're bringing tens of millions of objects into the equation.

Robert Benjamin

Some nonprofits won't give money directly out to the victims. Instead they will take the money and provide services, whether that is temporary housing or vouchers or things like that. [But] everyone is trying to be transparent and accountable.

Brendan Moore

India has a very transparent drug testing system and we compare well to countries like China and Russia whose athletes are also suspect.

Anju Bobby George

While you never like to see your company mentioned in a controversy like this, as we have publicly stated, we are committed to investigating the facts and being transparent in the reporting of the results.

Chip Goodyear

The deadliest bullshit is odorless and transparent.

William Gibson

We believe in providing compensation programs that are performance-based and transparent.

Terry Francisco

It's very transparent. There are no secrets coming from the College Board.

Caren Scoropanos

But it is a beta and we're still taking feedback, fixing bugs, and working hard to ready the final release. Customers and partners have asked us to continue to be transparent on the work we're doing and to release regular builds that they can evaluate and test. We're committed to doing this.

Margaret Cobb

How 'bout them transparent dangling carrots.

Alanis Morisette

If you're guided by a spirit of transparency, it forces you to operate with a spirit of ethics. Success comes from simplifying complex issues, address problems head on, be truthful and transparent. If you open yourself up to scrutiny, it forces you to a higher standard. I believe you should deliver on your promise. Promise responsibly.

Rodney Davis

This rule is a transparent attempt to accommodate the industry.

Arjun Makhijani

Instead of providing any satisfactory explanation or documents, the present BCCI management is providing evasive answers like the bidding process was transparent and the bidders were happy.

Jagmohan Dalmiya

It's much better to be open and transparent about it. These are obviously issues that all agencies are dealing with and it's much better that we are open about them and confront them head on, that we spot them early on and take action early on, rather than try and do any kind of cover up.

Brendan Cox

Public education is probably already the most transparent and accountable of any government system. When do we start talking about resources?

Richard Kouri

We want this to create a more open, transparent, consistent and predictable environment. Industries like autos and pharmaceuticals have had challenges here with previous agreements not being honored. This will make improvements in those areas.

Tami Overby

However, it seems that is never going to happen. So if people are going to filter, I want them to be open and transparent with their users about what they are filtering and why.

Rebecca Mackinnon

I trust that the Auditor-General will ensure a swift, thorough and transparent investigation, and I look forward to seeing the terms of reference.

Phil Heatley

For the safety of all the public, for the safety of our officers, we need to understand intimately all that can be learned from that incident, and that is our intention, to learn, and to make changes where necessary and to do it in as transparent a manner as possible.

William Bratton

Americans ought to be concerned about censorship and the use of information by our government. Similarly, we are citizens of the world, and collectively we ought to advocate an approach to information worldwide that is as open and transparent as possible.

Kirk Hanson

We are committed to providing the market detailed and transparent disclosures on our PC securities, and today we are pleased to announce the names and descriptions of the loan-level variables we intend to begin publishing later this year.

Patricia Cook

Whether the investigations are civilian or led by the judiciary, the most important thing is for them to be independent, impartial and transparent.

Nicole Choueiry

This is an easier way to make earnings transparent. I'm hoping that other companies will follow suit.

Matt Kelmon

If you think about libraries built even 20, 30 years ago, they were about protecting books, keeping the light out, kind of creating an environment that kept people apart from the world. What you're seeing (now) is lots of glass. ... the library becomes very transparent.

Leslie Burger

The response has been very fast and very transparent.

Maria Cheng

This is only a piece of the solution, and represents a transparent attempt by both cable operators and TV manufacturers to avoid an FCC rule desperately needed by consumers.

Dennis Wharton

Our nuclear activities are open and very transparent. Our military activities are all legal.

Ali Yunesi

There's something very transparent about Ellen, in an everywoman way.

Peter Horton

A deep neckline, a lot of skin, and a lot of open cuts on the sides and lots of transparent materials.

Angela Missoni

If we're going to make this work, the price must be transparent to the consumer.

John Simley

Never buy a vehicle before consulting the TCO. It makes ownership costs transparent and gives a breakdown year by year. In this regard, TCO may influence how long a person owns the vehicle, the number of years she chooses to finance the vehicle and other decisions. Consumers can see the depth of the water before jumping in the deep end.

Bob Kurilko

More flexible as well as more transparent.

Yu Yongding

It's an incremental step to develop its foreign-exchange market and make its currency more transparent. The central bank has been heavily involved in the market and will probably still intervene.

Tony Norfield

This clearly shows that contrary to Iran's claim that it is transparent and cooperating with the IAEA, it hasn't stopped being deceitful, hasn't stopped lying and hiding its program.

Alireza Jafarzadeh

I think that films are very transparent in that sense and they really portray the journey that that society is going through.

Gael Garcia Bernal

The crafty person is always in danger; and when they think they walk in the dark, all their pretenses are transparent.

John Tillotson

These ministers should have been required to resign a long time ago, or to be suspended by the president to allow for a proper transparent investigation.

Raila Odinga

It makes you vulnerable, makes you transparent to your brother. I mean, just think about what the world would be like if more people did this.

Rocky Twyman

There are a lot of reasons why Apple -- and all companies -- need to make these processes as transparent as possible. More basic though, not having them or trying to circumvent them shows a lack of respect for their customers.

Rebecca Jeschke

However, this is an absolutely transparent and market-oriented decision.

Dmitry Medvedev

If he's the best, then he should have to prove himself by having an open and transparent and public hiring process.

Sen. Clayton Hee

It is our responsibility to recover the dignity of the republic, re-establish democracy ... full respect for human rights and freedom of expression, to lay the basis for economic recovery ... and establish legal and transparent conditions for free and fair elections.

Javier Perez De Cuellar

The president will probably just stick with the formula that has served him so well over five years of judicial selections, including the choice of Chief Justice John Roberts. That is to pick a nominee with sterling legal credentials, weighty judicial experience and a transparent public record.

Wendy Long

I think I have a lot more substance. The reason my opponent is transparent is you can see right through him. There's nothing there.

Commissioner Paul Elizondo

It's an extremely important and valuable tool for any governmental entity to make as much information available to the public as possible. The underlying premise is that government business should be done in public and be transparent.

Tim Gleason

All of this falls under the general heading of Lilly working to be transparent to all our stakeholders.

Phil Belt

We want this trial to be transparent and a national event.

Leith Kubba

This wouldn't effect us. We are a 100 percent government department. ... We are already a transparent, open book.

Joseph Shapiro

The cleaner, the more transparent, the better. I think people will want to come here because it has a very nice atmosphere.

Norman Jacob

We believe it is important not to fall into the trap of talking the economy down unnecessarily - while at the same time being transparent about current economic reality.

Brent Impey

Make my breast transparent as pure crystal, that the world, jealous of me, may see the foulest thought my heart does hold.

George Villiers

All those reforms will need to be nurtured carefully and it is crucial that they be supported throughout by a stable and transparent macroeconomic policy framework.

Xolile Guma

I want a full and thorough investigation of this, and then we will issue the report publicly, ... We want to be transparent about this, and we are cooperating fully with the NCAA.

William Harvey

The critical goals of solid internal controls and transparent financial reporting are better achieved by a free and unfettered capital market rather than by burdensome regulation. Enforcement efforts should focus on aggressive prosecution of bad actors under existing anti-fraud laws rather than imposing costly and largely ineffective procedural requirements on all public companies.

Mallory Factor

I think the Fed would prefer that they be predictable. I know they are accused of being secretive, but they really are not. They would actually like to be more transparent, but they can't always do that.

Sharon Lee

There is a feeling of Elizabethan, and there's a feeling of timelessness. My desire is to make the past present, that it speaks to us today. A feeling of ancient ancestors who court and woo each other, so that it's kind of transparent and the audience can enter into this.

Dean Gilmour

You cannot but conclude that these were transparent, credible and good elections.

Craig Jenness

The IECI has been very helpful and very transparent. They stopped doing their work to ensure we had full access to all their files. We did disrupt their schedule.

Mazen Thouaib

We don't think these large mergers are good for consumers. They put more utilities in fewer and fewer hands, increasing the likelihood of complex financial structures that will be less transparent and undermining the ability of state regulators to protect consumers.

Tyson Slocum

We think this outage will be transparent to most of our customers. We decided to do the work now because failure of this equipment could potentially cause problems at a less convenient time.

Kathleen Lewis

What this system endeavours to do, ... is provide factors which explain the discretion and make it transparent and accountable (and) some parameters by which people can follow how they've reached their decision.

Adrian Anderson

We believe this suit has no merit and is simply a transparent effort to pry money from our company even though we've always provided full disclosure of all material company information to shareholders and the public.

Nick Iammartino

We're trying to be as open and transparent to the public as possible.

John Brennan

The Korean market is following a more transparent market practice; it is also a very dynamic economy, which I believe will by itself follow the market economy, despite bumps here and there.

Brett White

The tsunami has done colossal damage. At the same time the tsunami has also brought in a wonderful opportunity. It has made the administration much more transparent, much more sensitive to the needs of the society, more responsible.

Samir Acharya

Transparent tape is an American product that's fun.

Vicki Lansky

In the past, decommissioning as a process has been shrouded in secrecy and if we are to increase public confidence in the process then we want it to be more transparent.

Jeffrey Donaldson

The best and the cheapest and it's totally transparent.

James Maloney

This is a tremendous victory. Major decisions like the Quebec City closure need to be transparent. The public and postal workers have a right to be involved.

Deborah Bourque

The problem with inflation targeting is that it carries with it a risk of less flexibility at times, and that could be problematical. But it also makes policy less of a black box, so policy is likely to be more transparent.

Alan Ruskin

Free trade has been very good for the Canadian industry. Canada and the United States had established a free, transparent, and competitive market in beef and live cattle.

Alexander Moens

We followed the rules and regulations of the federal government. The process that has been followed in the last year was as open and as transparent as the law and the regulations permit.

Ric Williamson

There were no photographs, no detailed inventory, and no detail on the destruction of these arms. To describe today's statement as transparent would be the falsehood of the century.

Ian Paisley

As a company, Timberland wants to make it better and the new packaging will do just that. Our goal is to reduce our impact on the environment while engaging consumers to take action. This packaging and labeling initiative should make our industry more transparent and give consumers the information they need to make smart buying decisions.

Jeffrey Swartz

It doesn't bother me to talk about my private life, it doesn't bother me to talk about anything. My life is like a glass of water, transparent.

Shakira

The decision on the tariff increase must be transparent, managerially accountable and rational.

Industry Minister Fahmi Idris

User interaction is way too complex and he's made it transparent.

Michael Butler

The campaign was successful. Equal conditions were created for all candidates and that gives me hope the election will be democratic and transparent.

Ilham Aliyev

We are very confident that we have done all we have to do to ensure that Mexico will have a free and transparent election.

Emilio Zebadua

This is a cruel effort to inflict even more pain on the victims of the government's long-acknowledged misbehavior. I have never seen a more blatant and transparent attempt to politicize this case in order to divide and conquer Indian country.

Elouise Cobell

There is a definite willingness to be completely co-operative, be completely transparent and to exchange samples with the WHO and with other partners so we can track the genetic changes.

Elias Zerhouni

We need competent, transparent leadership, ... I see myself as a Mandela figure. Six years to get it done, then turn it over to the younger generation.

Ellen Johnson

The smart editors of America ... all understand that interactivity is part of our future. Doing that in a credible way and in a transparent way is the trick.

Ellen Foley