71.   Companies that hire ADL often keep it secret to avoid alerting the competition.

72.   Concerned that the Middle East would be outraged by the plan, the United States kept it secret for nearly five decades.

73.   Criminal investigations in France are kept secret until they conclude with the equivalent of an indictment or a dismissal of charges.

74.   Currently the United States keeps patents secret until they are issued.

75.   Currently, applications in the United States are kept secret until a patent is issued.

76.   Court papers say the informers, whose names are kept secret, are convicted criminals and drug users, and some are former members of the Reyes gang.

77.   Currently, for competitive reasons, applications in the United States are kept secret until a patent is issued.

78.   Details of the operation were being kept secret until the Pentagon was sure all the troops had been extricated from Afghanistan.

79.   Discovered two years ago, they were kept secret until Thursday.

80.   Detailed meeting transcripts are kept secret for five years.