That is the free market at work, not adherence to a code of silence, as some suggest.
The "code of silence" that is often found among athletes, fraternities and other similar groups must be addressed.
But that antiquated code of silence comes with a price, like not being home to see our newborn's first steps.
There have been a few exceptions to the apparent code of silence.
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"We've made some pretty good progress at breaking the code of silence, " said Jeff Dion, director of the National Crime Victim Bar Association.
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Given the code of silence that Wall Street firms impose on their employees, it is difficult to get mid-level bankers to speak openly about what they do.
Gov. SCHWARZENEGGER: For many months, you could not pick up a newspaper without reading about the youth dying in prison under a code of silence or abuse of force.
Peculiarly, the Four Corners programme - fronted by same journalist, Sarah Ferguson, who was behind the Code of Silence expose of rugby league in 2009 - received its lowest viewing of the year.
Only if people in his city believe that the officers on patrol share the values of the communities they serve can one ever expect to break the omerta - Italian for code of silence - his detectives encounter.
But what nobody can deny, many believe, is that Mr Kejriwal has shattered an inviolable code of silence, by talking openly about what he believes are transgressions of the powerful and influential, the so-called "high and mighty" of India's intensely unequal and hierarchical society.
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For a moment, it appeared as if Intel Germany Chief Executive Hannes Schwaderer broke the strict code of silence enforced by Apple this week when he seemingly let it slip to a German-language publication that the computer and gadget maker would be using a version of Intel's Atom processor in an upcoming version of its iPhone.
While the code of silence and cloak of secrecy around patient survival and recovery remains the norm in most of the country, there are ways you can increase the chances that you will get better care, according to Makary, a surgeon at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore and a professor at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health.
Voices travel up from the ground floor in a smokestack effect and ricochet around the preserved glazed-white brick walls. (The "new" library prefers buzz over the code of silence of the old library.) How different from the older sections of the library where, for instance, one reading room has restored its carved plaster ceiling reproducing Michelangelo's Laurentian Library in Florence.
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For a moment, it appeared as if Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) Germany Chief Executive Hannes Schwaderer broke the strict code of silence enforced by Apple (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) this week when he seemingly let it slip to a German-language publication that the computer and gadget maker would be using a version of Intel's Atom processor in an upcoming version of its iPhone.
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