Last year after the secret settlement and subsequent accusations were made public, Silver said he wouldn't engage in any other secret settlements using public money.
The group said there was also a need for a "public domain defence" so that once a secret was in the public domain a person could not be prosecuted.
Like the Hunchback of Notre-Dame or the Phantom of the Opera, Hugo lives a secret life in a public place a rubbishy room up in the clockworks, where he tinkers with inventions old and new.
He had said the settlement, which used public money, was kept secret in the interest of protecting the victims' careers.
In Islamabad the British high commission noted a secret public-opinion survey of 2005 that showed that Mr Musharraf, the West's Pakistani ally against terrorism, would lose the next election to Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party.
Despite failures, Nintendo's trials continued -- but in secret so that errors weren't subjected to public humiliation.
The trouble with this conspiracy theory is that Rick made no secret of his views in 2009, which he outlined in widely distributed public documents.
How many of us harbor secret fantasies of such self-assurance that we would never dare avow in public!
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This notwithstanding serious questions raised about Mr. Islam's public biography, conduct in relation to Muslim outreach, the Coughlin affair and his top secret security clearance.
They said they decided to go public with their decades-old secret because they believed someone was about to release the information in an attempt to smear Domenici.
The Special Immigration Appeals Commission (Siac) is a semi-secret court that deals with national security deportations where some of the sensitive material cannot be disclosed in public.
In a separate scandal in the late 1980s, the security services were forced to open up to the public, and then destroy, secret files they had kept on more than 900, 000 Swiss citizens.
"It is a public secret that Habibie is a big spender when it comes to technology, " says a prominent banker in Jakarta.
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