Opacity has grown with complexity.

Sale and leaseback transactions

The differences between Roosevelt and Churchill led to several separate deals with the Soviets.

From the UK, Daniel Wickham reminds his 1,700 followers on Twitter about Saudi Arabia's arms deals with his country

Torture and the Politics of Ambiguity

Instead, each businessman makes his own deals with the Kremlin to gain relative security.

Lawyers oversee bigger transactions and cases.

These investments are an incredible bargain.

Education in an Uncertain World

Such a custom, means brisk business for fabric merchants.

Many parties were engaged in the arms transactions.

They make deals with the fast fashion giants and they come up with a way to sell their product to a whole new demographic the Santee Alley demographic.

Basically you believe in complexity, but not in ambiguity.

In exchange for gas deals with rival suppliers, such as Algeria, Russia has offered vast concessions on arms and preferential debt terms.

And those new oil and gas deals will buttress both economies.

In the end, the politics of ambiguity may fail Rumsfeld all those high resolution photographs from Abu Ghraib are anything but ambiguous.

What are the ingredients? Imagination, playfulness, novelty, curiosity, mystery.

But complexity is not the only reason for obscurity.

It was precisely to assess the impact of deals with countries like China on national security that Congress established the Committee on Foreign Investment in the US.

No one is forcing us to sign the mining and drilling deals today.

It depends on inside deals, on moving ahead of the market.

Indeed, China has blithely entered into business with African countries that Europe and America refuse to engage with, owing to sanctions.

Likewise, the Russians have just erased much of Iraq s debt and agreed lucrative oil drilling deals.

Such an approach will require that each side exercise broad restraint and live with the ambiguity of working with a strong adversary to manage profound differences.

Over the past year, however, the shroud of mystery has begun to drop.

We would therefore like to avoid conceptual ambiguity in the Protocol.

A financial center was simply a great metropolis where enormous financial dealings took place.

One proposal calls for taxing national and international financial transactions.

Hesitant to leave a large imprint in their wake, some ministries have no budgets, and ministers are reluctant to sign deals with foreign firms.

Mystery is important. You fall in love with somebody who's somewhat mysterious, in part because mystery elevates dopamine in the brain, probably pushes you over that threshold to fall in love.

Syria may pay a heavy price for that ambiguity.

Moreover, DNA has acquired a certain mystique in popular culture.

In such countries, there may be New Deals, but no revolutions.

Today, both the US and the European Union keep a close watch on international acquisitions.

Ultimately, what gives rise to abuses such as occurred at Abu Ghraib is a policy of deliberate ambiguity concerning how to handle detainees.

Current U.S. President Barack Obama's position towards North Korea has been to resist making deals with North Korea for the sake of defusing tension, a policy known as strategic patience.

The reasons behind moving the prisoners between the two locations remain unclear.

Language is a piece of social technology for enhancing the benefits of cooperation for reaching agreements, for striking deals and for coordinating our activities.

Interbank relationships, as well as investment banking operations, are already highly international.

Its rain forest, threatened by timber companies that have made deals with some of the militias, plays an important part in slowing global warming.

To them, it appeared that a determination would have to be made as to whether the provisions of a special treaty were consistent with the draft articles, which could give rise to a degree of uncertainty and conflicts of interpretation.

The Treaty is especially ambiguous where it uses the language of constitutions.

The role of GFPs tends to be ambiguous and ill defined.

There was general understanding that ambiguities could provide a possible basis or excuse for manipulation by the powerful.

Through thebonyads, the mullahs have their say in most production and trade deals.