Word: explicitly
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Rudenstine made no commitments- or even an explicit statement-when asked repeatedly about the future of the University's policy on third-party purchasing, known as buying through a "straw." For the Allston purchases, Harvard officials hired Beal Cos., a prominent real estate developer in Boston, to purchase the 14 parcels for them during the seven-year period...
...heart association had a public-spirited goal: it wanted the labeling to help consumers understand the nutritional content of the foods they bought. But the Food and Drug Administration objected, and the A.H.A. eventually dropped the program--though a few years later the FDA itself started requiring more explicit food labels. (The A.H.A. has since instituted a more modest "food certification" program...
...answer is no." He contends that the antidivorce movement isn't a genuine movement at all but a think tank-inspired pseudoissue. He points to the role being played by organizations like the Institute for American Values and its offshoot, the Council on Families. "They have a very explicit objective of getting these issues on the national-policy debate. I can tell you, though, there is no indication that public attitudes are swinging in a way consistent with this move." Other academics agree with Bumpass. Stephanie Coontz, who teaches family studies at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, derides...
...prophet who receives new revelations from God. These can supplant older revelations, as in the case of the church's historically most controversial doctrine: Smith himself received God's sanctioning of polygamy in 1831, but 49 years later, the church's President announced its recision. Similarly, an explicit policy barring black men from holding even the lowest church offices was overturned by a new revelation in 1978, opening the way to huge missionary activity in Africa and Brazil...
Executives of the major networks and cable channels said today they spent the past week examining the ratings system that they had agreed to only a week ago and found it insufficiently explicit. That system added letter ratings to the previous system, devised only some months before, that informed viewers as to whether a TV show was G, for general audiences; PG, required parental guidance; 14, suitable for those 14 years of age or older; or M, suitable for mature audiences. The more recent ratings added to the age-group classifications the letters...