Word: explicitly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...officials to suggest privately that Israel knew exactly what it was doing: it bombed the mortar site first, then deliberately aimed the airburst shells at the compound in the hopes of nailing the fighters. Van Kappen's monograph did not go so far as to make this accusation explicit--although the U.S., which fears that the report may jeopardize a new agreement to contain the war between Israel and Hizballah, is apparently interpreting it in this light...
...protesters' disregard for the value of intelligent discussion was implicit in their actions, it was made explicit--and frightening--by the statement of Jason B. Phillips '99 that "Harvard needs to watch its professors, watch what they say." This, of course, would fly in the face of our tradition of academic tenure, a tradition that guarantees freedom of expression and thought within academia's walls. If this tradition is abandoned and the University punishes professors on the basis of their opinions or scholarship, the market place of ideas upon which democracy rests would be severely damaged. Mr. Phillips might well...
...Drug dealing fosters crime and criminal behavior." True in many cases, but crime is rarely associated with the drugs the students were allegedly dealing. No one has claimed the students were protecting their stash "by explicit threats of violence...
Mitsubishi's American managers--all men--got a firsthand glimpse of this male-dominated culture when they spent time in Japan training. After work, the men were routinely taken to clubs where sexually explicit entertainment was available--a practice that was to be repeated in Normal. This kind of behavior, the complaint declared, has "contributed to an atmosphere in which males in the plant widely believe that management will tolerate abusive activities toward women...
...aren't we regular folks lucky that the Jesus Seminar pundits have devised their own criteria for determining the reliability of the New Testament? Out of the blue, they assume that shorter, punchier passages are more likely to be accurate, and they prefer parables without explicit applications and impose other arbitrary criteria to the Scriptures. It is not difficult to discredit even the best-attested works of antiquity, given the unscholarly prerogative of choosing the cut according to one's own biases. Liberal theologians since the turn of the century (and before) have attempted to refute parts of the Bible...