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The banking secrecy laws, now much diluted, were designed to shield an individual's personal finances from the prying eyes of the state.

Via a Middle East investment company, Assets Group, the Qataris are currently building an exclusive, 40-villa luxury resort there, with an upgraded concrete airstrip capable of receiving executive jets, far from prying eyes.

How leading Democrats address these two significant challenges will determine whether they can pry back control of Congress, state legislatures and even the White House.

She didn’t want to pry, she said, but what exactly happened?

She posted images of city workers prying out the two figures from the bench and the bronzed Castro and Guevara being ignominiously hauled away in a bulldozer.