The disclosure of the request from Mr. Goss represents the first indication of how he intends to approach the issue.

Today, critics said the disclosure represented a "terrible waste of talent" and warned that some teachers were failing to stimulate bright pupils.

When viewed from that perspective, I think it is quite fair to say that Google's disclosure represents the best of the hacked lot thus far.

But the disclosures also represented Mr. Marineau's new policy of openness.

If true, such a disclosure would represent a highly unusual leak of the Fed's thinking just a week before a policy meeting.

Such disclosures often represent a hedge fund group's holdings for only a brief moment.

The disclosure that the Boeing 747 had been decapitated represented a major development in the investigation.

It is impossible to know whether these disclosures represent accurate information as they have yet not been corroborated by independent witnesses.

The frank disclosure represents a major change for Charoen Pokphand.

But even the disclosure of a joint approach represented the first positive sign that the excruciating budget deadlock of 1991 might be nearing its end.