Word: explicitly
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...sexual misbehavior on the factory floor. They reported obscene, crude sketches of genital organs and sex acts, and names of female workers scratched into unpainted car bodies moving along the assembly line. Women were called sluts, whores and bitches and subjected to groping, forced sex play and male flashing. Explicit sexual graffiti such as KILL THE SLUT MARY were scrawled on rest-area and bathroom walls. In a particularly egregious case, a worker put his air gun between a woman's legs and pulled the trigger. Declared a line supervisor: "I don't want any bitches on my line. Women...
Many physicians also fear that making the practice legal will lead to ill-considered decisions to terminate life. Some doctors believe--though have not proved--that a 1993 Dutch decision to legalize euthanasia has resulted in some cases of mercy killing without the patient's explicit consent. Clinical depression can often be the reason behind a terminal patient's death wish; so can unremitting, intense pain. Says Dr. William Wood, clinical director of the Winship Cancer Center at Emory University in Atlanta: "If we treat their depression and we treat their pain, I've never had a patient who wanted...
...good sense of current race relations at the College. It does not engage issues such as the racial hostility or prejudice that many students of color feel, or the tension that has resulted from the University's affirmative action policies. For example, many black students often feel implicit and explicit pressure to prove that they really belong here. The handbook is also silent on matters such as the sometimes troubled relationship between minority students and the Harvard police and the fact that minority students are often perceived as potential criminals...
...Based on my recollection, I'm not certain the experiences the women described could be classified as sexual harassment," the person says. "It was shockingly inappropriate behavior [that] violated standards. It had a gender bias, but not explicit sexual content...
...accurate. They also felt safer confirming idiosyncratic thoughts that ran against the social or religious grain of Jesus' day, involved role reversals or, in keeping with the style of the wandering wise men of the time, employed exaggeration, humor and concrete and vivid images. They preferred parables without explicit applications...