But they are probably the most opaque and badly run.
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This corner of the art market is the most opaque thing in the world.
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PBMs are one of the least regulated and most opaque sectors in the health care industry.
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"It is truly the most opaque of all black boxes in health care," Mr. Turpin said.
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Saturn's "B ring" has long been known as the brightest and most opaque (appearing black in this image).
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But surely the digital revolution has brought some much-needed transparency to this most opaque of luxury businesses?
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Mr. López Obrador handed responsibility for the new airport to Mexico's military, one of the country's most opaque institutions.
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The reality is there are still medical black boxes to be cracked, and shoulder injuries are among the most opaque.
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"Our initiative targets the most opaque place in the supply chain, where yarn spinners blend different types of cotton together," she said.
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But it might be the minute-by-minute processes of kiss cams that are most interesting — and most opaque — to regular fans.
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Among these companies, Facebook has significantly been the most opaque to rank-and-file consumers about its technology and use of data.
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Perhaps the most opaque curse in the Bible, which Noah pronounced on his son Ham, has proved one of its most destructive.
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Dos Santos has said she wants to improve transparency at Sonangol, long been regarded as one of the most opaque institutions in Africa.
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The brightest and most opaque sections were assumed to be the largest, while the parts that were dimmer and more transparent were assumed to be sparser.
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Amazon, which is the most opaque large company in tech, told investors that it was expecting a remarkably wide range in business performance in the holiday quarter.
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Ikea, one of the world's largest, and most opaque, privately held companies, reported revenue of 36.3 billion euros, or about $133 billion, for the latest fiscal year.
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Deep neural nets, which evolved from the kinds of techniques that Rich Caruana was experimenting with in the 1990s, are now the class of machine learning that seems most opaque.
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The regulator's announcement, which outlined serious lapses as recently as 2018, comes as Switzerland seeks to change its image as one of the globe's most opaque and secretive financial centres.
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"This is simultaneously the most opaque and the most transparent administration in history," said Keith Urbahn, whose company, Javelin, represents former FBI Director James Comey and Democratic operative Donna Brazile.
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Exact numbers are unknown as the industry is highly unregulated, but the Natural Resource Governance Institute, an advocacy group, ranked Myanmar's gemstone sector one of the most opaque in the world.
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Among bright ideas on Wall Street, this notion of promising investors instant liquidity in some of the most opaque corners of the global marketplace ranks with earlier innovations like securitization in consequence if not risk.
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PARIS — The turmoil that has been roiling the corporate and the creative sides of the fashion world has not spared one of the industry's most opaque groups: Spain's family-owned fragrance and fashion conglomerate, Puig.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Ten months after new European Union rules designed to boost market transparency kicked in, the initiative appears to be working, having fueled a dramatic jump in electronic trading across some of the financial world's most opaque markets.
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John Collins, an affiliate with the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University and former head of policy for Coinbase, said one of the strictest, and most opaque, is China, which has banned crypto exchanges and so-called initial coin offerings.
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The central African CFA union comprises former French colonies Chad, Congo Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Cameroon and Central African Republic - all but the last of them among sub-Saharan Africa's top oil producers, whose financial dealings are among the world's most opaque.
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Yet on the way to becoming a forum for unfiltered democracy, Five Star has grown into Italy's most opaque political party, and Mr. Casaleggio its most enigmatic leader in an era when the web is a mire of hacking, fake news and hidden interests.
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And for that reason, it was opposed not just by Republicans but also by civil liberties groups and some liberals who fear that it would strengthen some of the most opaque and easily abused powers the government has acquired in the name of the war on terror.
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In red or yellow pairs, at opposite corners of simple, two-tone designs, the instruments are both quotation marks and parentheses, emphasizing the intentional, communicative nature of any art work, even the most opaque, while also insisting on its provisionality: The pieces can express only what viewer and artist, for a passing moment, agree on.
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The larvae are nearly transparent, sometimes with a slightly yellow cast; their most opaque features are two air bags, one in the thorax, one in the abdomen about in the second last segment. The adults are delicate flies that closely resemble Chironomidae. Their antennae are 15-segmented and the females' antennae are somewhat bristly; the males' antennae in contrast, are very plumose. In this respect too they resemble many of the Nematocera, and in particular the Chironomidae.
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More than half of all U.S. publicly traded companies, and 63% of the Fortune 500, are incorporated in Delaware. The state's attractiveness as a corporate haven is largely because of its business-friendly corporation law. Franchise taxes on Delaware corporations supply about a fifth of the state's revenue. Although "USA (Delaware)" ranked as the world's most opaque jurisdiction on the Tax Justice Network's 2009 Financial Secrecy Index, the same group's 2011 Index ranks the U.S. fifth and does not specify Delaware.
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The underside of an optical mouse. Early optical mice relied entirely on one or more light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and an imaging array of photodiodes to detect movement relative to the underlying surface, eschewing the internal moving parts a mechanical mouse uses in addition to its optics. A laser mouse is an optical mouse that uses coherent (laser) light. The earliest optical mice detected movement on pre-printed mousepad surfaces, whereas the modern LED optical mouse works on most opaque diffuse surfaces; it is usually unable to detect movement on specular surfaces like polished stone.
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Recently, Club Mexticacan, was established as a non- profit organization in Northern California to help those in need, such as children and the elderly. In a little less than a year, major accomplishments have been achieved; two vehicles have been purchased to transport the disabled children to special education classes and hundreds of toys, blankets, and shoes have been handed out. According to the Institute of Transparency and Public Information, Mexticacán became the most opaque city in Jalisco in 2017 because their government had failed to publish fundamental information on his website.
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A Microsoft wireless optical mouse An optical mouse is a computer mouse which uses a light source, typically a light-emitting diode (LED), and a light detector, such as an array of photodiodes, to detect movement relative to a surface. Variations of the optical mouse have largely replaced the older mechanical mouse design, which uses moving parts to sense motion. The earliest optical mice detected movement on pre-printed mousepad surfaces. Modern optical mice work on most opaque diffusely reflective surfaces like paper, but most of them do not work properly on specularly reflective surfaces like polished stone or transparent surfaces like glass.
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Allan Cunningham, a friend of Blake's, claimed "the merit or the fault of surpassing all human comprehension ... what he meant by them even his wife declared she could not tell, though she was sure they had a meaning, and a fine one" and that "it is not a little fearful to look upon; a powerful, dark, terrible, though undefined and indescribable, impression is left on the mind—and it is in no haste to be gone".Bentley 2003 qtd. p. 154 In 2002, Jon Mee claimed that "The Book of Los is perhaps the most opaque of all the work Blake produced in the 1790s."Mee 2002 p.
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The Budokwai had a showreel filmed in 2014, directed by actor/director Lucy Charles and shot by WhitePartridge Media. In recent years The Budokwai has also featured on BT Sport's Beyond the Octagon, BBC One's The One Show and most recently in a short film for The British Open. The film was commissioned by the British Judo Association, and starred Peter Blewett and Kyle Perry. The film, Hard Lesson The Gentle Way was produced and directed by Lucy Charles, The Sports Presentation Company and Six More Than Forty. The Pyjama Game a book by Mark Law was described by the Observer as “A fascinating journey in which he unravels this most opaque of sports with humour, verve and style.
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Some observers recommended passengers avoid flying 787s with nine- abreast seating, although others suggested that the 787 is more comfortable than other airliners. The 787's cabin windows are larger than any other civil air transport in-service or in development, with dimensions of , and a higher eye level so passengers can maintain a view of the horizon. The composite fuselage permits larger windows without the need for structural reinforcement. Instead of plastic window shades, the windows use electrochromism-based smart glass (supplied by PPG Industries) allowing flight attendants and passengers to adjust five levels of sunlight and visibility to their liking, reducing cabin glare while maintaining a view to the outside world, but the most opaque setting still has some transparency.
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They need to convince investors these earnings are real, that the company is for real and that growth will be realized." Fastow disclosed to Enron's board of directors on October 22 that he earned $30 million from compensation arrangements when managing the LJM limited partnerships. That day, the share price of Enron decreased to $20.65, down $5.40 in one day, after the announcement by the SEC that it was investigating several suspicious deals struck by Enron, characterizing them as "some of the most opaque transactions with insiders ever seen". Attempting to explain the billion-dollar charge and calm investors, Enron's disclosures spoke of "share settled costless collar arrangements," "derivative instruments which eliminated the contingent nature of existing restricted forward contracts," and strategies that served "to hedge certain merchant investments and other assets.
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309 The five parts of The Waste Land are entitled: #The Burial of the Dead #A Game of Chess #The Fire Sermon #Death by Water #What the Thunder Said The text of the poem is followed by several pages of notes, purporting to explain his metaphors, references, and allusions. Some of these notes are helpful in interpreting the poem, but some are arguably even more puzzling, and many of the most opaque passages are left unannotated. The notes were added after Eliot's publisher requested something longer to justify printing The Waste Land in a separate book. Thirty years after publishing the poem with these notes, Eliot expressed his regret at "having sent so many enquirers off on a wild goose chase after Tarot cards and the Holy Grail".
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A. C. Bradley described this play as "built on the grand scale,"Bradley, Shakespearean Tragedy like King Lear and Macbeth, but it differs from those two masterpieces in an important way. The warrior Coriolanus is perhaps the most opaque of Shakespeare's tragic heroes, rarely pausing to soliloquise or reveal the motives behind his proud isolation from Roman society. In this way, he is less like the effervescent and reflective Shakespearean heroes/heroines such as Macbeth, Hamlet, Lear and Cleopatra, and more like figures from ancient classical literature such as Achilles, Odysseus, and Aeneas—or, to turn to literary creations from Shakespeare's time, the Marlovian conqueror Tamburlaine, whose militaristic pride finds its parallel in Coriolanus. Readers and playgoers have often found him an unsympathetic character, as his caustic pride is strangely, almost delicately balanced at times by a reluctance to be praised by his compatriots and an unwillingness to exploit and slander for political gain.
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