Gaming revenue as a percentage of total revenue is much higher in Macau than it is in Las Vegas and its no secret that profit margins on gambling are much better than they are for food service and other tourist-related businesses like entertainment and hotel rooms.
China has made no secret of its desire to develop a strong, homegrown auto industry.
Microsoft has made no secret of its intention to make PixelSense tables available for consumers.
The Bush administration has made no secret of its intent to complete the endangered species changes quickly.
American pressure also played a part: the Treasury made no secret of its preference for the new clauses.
Recently, however, the Justice Department has made no secret of its intentions to more aggressively prosecute such violations.
Beyond that, France has made no secret of its desire for decision-making among the 17 euro-zone members and sidelining the British.
National Grid has made no secret of its desire to expand into the rapidly deregulating US market, where it sees significant growth opportunities.
The Fed makes no secret of its concern about the sluggish pace of America's economic recovery, and lately it has begun to come clean about the risk of deflation.
Ever since Truett Cathy opened the first Chick-fil-A Restaurant at a mall in suburban Atlanta in 1967, the company has made no secret of its dedication to Christian values.
The mobile firm has made no secret of its desire to get its hands on lower-frequency spectrum, which can cover much larger areas and offers better indoor coverage than the high-frequency spectrum it currently owns.
The NRA, one of the most powerful lobbies in U.S. politics, has made no secret of its anger at Democrats' efforts to enact even modest gun-control laws and said Thursday the TV ads would begin running this weekend and continue through the Democratic convention in Los Angeles next week.
Moto never had a lot of stake in the Symbian game to begin with, and what little it did have was in the UIQ camp -- the camp being killed off in Symbian's transition to an open platform -- and what's more, the company has made no secret of its ambitions to become an Android powerhouse.
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Then again, RIM has made no secret of its aspirations to push ever deeper into the consumer space -- a place where Apple shines -- and again, RIM's touch paradigm needs some serious tweaking, so maybe this guy is going to leave the Bolds and Niagaras of the world to the pros and attack the multimedia-hungry masses with an entirely different angle.
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This will almost certainly be the case should Silicon Valley Group be sold to the Netherland's ASML. The latter has made no secret of its desire to eliminate what is today an increasingly formidable competitor -- thanks to many tens of millions of U.S. tax dollars invested in enhancing SVG's ability to bring to market state-of-the art, high-end lithography machines used to mass-produce sophisticated microcircuitry.
Facebook, which has 350 million users, keeps its revenues secret, and there are no big publicly-traded companies to compare it with, making it impossible for an outsider to monitor the financial heath of the company.
It is no secret that the Cali mob in its heyday bought support at the highest levels of society.
The Kremlin makes no secret that Mr Lukashenka has finally exhausted its patience.
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Even without an asset swap, it's no secret that JPMorgan Chase would like to build on its retail division.
He has made no secret of his wealth, and required campaign disclosures already hint at its magnitude.
He said the Secret Service regularly updates its list of White House pass-holders, and he had no idea why the White House sought the background files on past employees.
It's no secret GM is hemorrhaging money and so the company is making this offer to all its unionized workers: leave and give up your retirement benefits, and we'll pay you between 35 thousand and 140 thousand dollars, depending how long you've been with the company.
It is no secret that I have also predicted that the for-profit health insurance model is doomed to meet its end.
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