And the isolation imposed by her secretiveness comes to threaten not just her marriage, but her very self.

ECONOMIST: New fiction

China has a habit of dishing out blame after big accidents, but remains unwilling to address the culture of secretiveness that can aggravate such problems.

ECONOMIST: China’s reluctance to come clean | The

Mr Kerry marries flexibility of thought with secretiveness in decision-making.

ECONOMIST: John Kerry

NCC's very existence is being questioned and its secretiveness criticized.

ECONOMIST: Canada

The secretiveness stems from the belief that a populist intelligence operation with virtually no resources, designed to publicize information that powerful institutions do not want public, will have serious adversaries.

NEWYORKER: No Secrets

Then they should take realistic steps to rehabilitate themselves. (Sogo's secretiveness and complex structure reportedly helped obscure the company's woes, even from its own executives.) Banks must get real about which loans on their books are hopeless.

CNN: Bankrupt Sogo