Customer-side CEOs in particular are growing increasingly fed up with the apparent black arts of IT operations that require larger and larger budgets without predictably delivering more and more business value.

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It's one thing for card companies to raise rates on customers who are behind in their payments or whose credit scores decline greatly, but quite another for on-time customers with no apparent black marks against them to be put in the higher-rate camp.

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Some measure of the challenges that await Black are the apparent gap between the best of the charter schools and the run-of-the-mill public schools where too many teachers think of tenure as a sinecure that spares them the need for serious innovation on the educational front.

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But she is not on the witness list: as the Republican senators made plain to the managers, it would not be sensible for so many white southern males to be seen interrogating a black woman whose only apparent fault is to be loyal to her boss.

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While the rest of the world registers an unhappy three-hundred-pound blonde, Black sees a slender Gwyneth Paltrow, and his apparent generosity draws other women to him, too.

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Peter Herbert, a judge and chairman of the Society of Black Lawyers, also called for an independent inquiry into the "apparent bias, victimisation and institutional racism" driving the investigation.

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As the legions of black outfits swarmed the runways of Paris this season, the resounding victory was apparent.

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And Mr Pannick said Mr Farrakhan's apparent message over the years was that "Jews have money and power - secondly, black people are the victims of the fact that Jews have money and power, and they are responsible for holding down black people".

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