The safety problem is an open secret among people in the health care industry.
Double-dipping fees have been an open secret in the industry for years.
And with respect to the Middle East, it is an open secret that the United States played no significant role in the diplomacy that led to the Israeli-Palestinian breakthrough.
It is an open secret that hospitals in the 21st Century are full of patients that should not be there.
He remained on the board (in the chair for five years), and signs of loyalty to principles appeared in 1999 when he wrote an open letter to the paper's employees condemning a secret deal in which the management had agreed to devote an edition of the Sunday magazine to a local sports arena in return for sharing the advertising profits.
It is an "open secret" in Whitehall that the plans, which aim to bring most benefits and tax credits under a single payment called the "universal credit", are in trouble, Mr Byrne claimed in the Commons.
While the courts will make the final call on the Jindal-Zee battle, (coincidentally, both tycoons hail from Hisar, a small town in Haryana state ) it exposes what has for long been an open secret and lately, not even a secret anymore: the cosy nexus between big business and the media in India.
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As Forbes pointed out in February, the owners and operators of the biggest online poker firms are an open secret--and many of them can be found regularly playing poker in Las Vegas or promoting their companies at U.S. events shown on television.
The secret is in the use of the open HTML 5 standard that can be used by any browser.
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The secret, the researchers report in the open access journal Plos Computational Biology, is in their ability to take cues from one another - just like an insect swarm.
It will also decide whether the president will be chosen in a secret or open ballot.
This has been an open secret among bankers and regulators since the start of the credit crunch in 2007.
For its part, T-Mobile hasn't announced its 4G plans yet, but it's an open secret than Deutsche Telekom has explored the idea of selling off its US outpost in the past.
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At this point, it's pretty much an open secret that Sprint needs to hitch its ride to LTE to stay in the wireless game.
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The entire San Francisco Design Center was cordoned off by at least 50 police and Secret Service agents as the Launch Festival prepared to open with Israeli President Shimon Peres in a fireside chat with angel investor Yossi Vardi and conference producer Jason Calacanis.
Thanks to an incessant stream of leaks, the handset you see in black and white above had become something of an open secret.
It is an open secret that aid and investment have been key factors behind the decision of some small nations in recent years to recognize Taipei.
The political answer is an open secret: before the election the government promised as much to Muslim voters dismayed at the war in Iraq.
Ministers argue millions of pounds are wasted settling civil claims which the government is prevented from challenging successfully because that would involve revealing secret intelligence in open court.
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It is an open secret that, before turning to the domestic courtship of Dresdner, Deutsche Bank tried to buy in France and Italy, only to be rebuffed by nationalistically minded governments.
But Fingar, in defending his report, says the intelligence community provides a level of analysis not found in other agencies, and he said whether the report was based on open or secret sources was irrelevant.
They are weakly regulated and thus are able to handle huge financial sums for parties who want to remain anonymous, moving money in and out of secret foreign-bank accounts and then on and off the books of legitimate companies in open commerce.
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