He said a decision will come soon. "It will be one that is fully transparent so the American people understand exactly what we are doing and why we are doing it,"

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"What is important for our friends and partners here in the Middle East to be assured of is that the United States will be very open and transparent about these contacts, and we will keep our friends informed of what is going on so that nobody gets surprised,".

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Mr Tanaka's administration in Nagano has become so transparent that he even sits behind glass walls, through which voters can see their governor at work.

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So transparent has this campaign become that Azerbaijan's Minister of National Security was obliged in a recent meeting with Russia's Federal Security Service (read KGB), to make a formal demarche.

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It means you should take these games with a grain of salt - particularly areas where states can do things that aren't so transparent like around the cut scores for their tests, the composition of the tests, how difficult they are and so forth.

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