Opaque
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His 1980 flick Devil Hunter is as rushed, opaque, stupid, lazy and exploitative in the truest sense of the word (the film's title is misleading, for starters) as any other Franco film I've seen.
It's ridiculous,
opaque
and all around pretty stupid.
He is using the
opaque
situation in changing China to cover up his dealings and has a little group of plotters and accomplices to manage his operations.
Sion Sono returns to themes of loss of personal and group identity first covered in Suicide Club However, I believe that Norikos Dinner Table is his most coherent treatment of alienation and atomisation driven by westernisation Having watched this movie and having sat through the seemingly never-ending making of documentary (where the director provides no insight into his intention except, (he States in the
opaque
documentary of the making of this movie) 'to make a beautifully grotesque spectacle', my take is that Sion Sono vision is flawed.
Unfortunately the other characters are too opaque, too much like ciphers, to really sympathise with.
Public-sector employment in Kenya is notoriously
opaque.
Besides, China is already pouring money into the developing world, often through highly
opaque
channels.
But support for the TNC is largely skin deep – it is neither grounded in knowledge of how the
opaque
council functions, nor based on an understanding of its goals.
To figure out what will change under a different framework for leadership succession, it is important to cut through the authorities’
opaque
rhetoric – the “moderately well-off society” transitioning into the “new era” – and stress-test their basic development strategy.
In this context, keeping track of
opaque
and evolving financial linkages is more important than ever.
Moreover, the chaebols’ ownership is often opaque, with webs of cross-shareholdings allowing founding families to exercise controlling power, despite holding only a small portion of equity.
It is likely to take the form of an
opaque
global credit glut, turbocharged by the fragile mixture of too-big-to-fail global banking with a huge and largely unwatched and unregulated shadow banking sector.
Given domestic political instability, the government’s
opaque
nature, and an ever-changing regional context, it is impossible to predict their decision.
Business leaders have swung belatedly into action with warnings of the serious economic consequences of Brexit, but voting intentions – as the election has plainly demonstrated – are
opaque.
Today, this means consistent negative real interest rates – equivalent to an
opaque
tax on bondholders and on savers more generally.
But if we do not prioritize explicitly, we end up spreading resources thinly, or allow
opaque
bureaucratic processes and the vagaries of media attention and the pressure of lobby groups to prioritize for us.
But the banks that benefited from public money are now bigger than ever;
opaque
financial instruments are once again de rigueur; and bankers’ bonus pools are overflowing.
Opaque
decisions and unexplained priorities are unlikely to receive public support.
Sunlight on Tax HavensBERKELEY – Tax havens are by design secretive and
opaque.
Given that balance-sheet accounting is conducted according to a curious mix of nominal and market values, it can be
opaque
and easy to manipulate.
But, all too often, self-serving politicians deny citizens their right to benefit from their country’s natural resources, using
opaque
or secret transactions to steal or siphon off assets.
The European Commission estimates that open registries would cost less than the current,
opaque
system.
The US lacks investment in infrastructure and has excess investment in financial derivatives – the result of
opaque
leverage from over-consumption.
By contrast, the Capaldo framework lacks sectoral and country detail; its behavioral assumptions remain opaque; and its extreme Keynesian assumptions sit uneasily with its medium-term perspective.
It watches as Maduro, the tinpot Liberator, appropriates revenues from the national oil company to finance his clientelism, and to top off
opaque
funds that are managed without oversight by his regime’s satraps.
Even if owning oil assets is a useful hedge (as in a small, oil-consuming country), it is not clear that buying stakes in
opaque
companies in foreign countries is the best strategy.
Sufficient unto themselves behind the Kremlin's walls, Putin and his officials rule in ways more arbitrary and
opaque
than would be tolerated in a true democracy.
But the
opaque
nature of the deal may further weaken America’s already wobbly standing in Kyrgyzstan, where the contract has been cast as a source of corruption that padded the bank accounts of two successive dictators.
This procedure may seem opaque, but by lodging a complaint under the Protocol’s provisions, victims will now be able to bring to the surface abuses that their governments inflict, fail to stop, ignore, or do not redress.
Opaque
or dubious dealings have cast doubt on the integrity of organizations and institutions on which we should be able to rely.
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