Word: explicitly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rather than of purposeful scheming on the part of administrators. "There are people who feel that purposeful neglect led to the decline of the department. But I believe it could have happened otherwise. I admit it does look suspicious but I don't subscribe to the theory of an explicit conspiracy...
That is, help him accept that death without the peace of oblivion is China's lot. The manifestations of that horror are myriad, and Zhang, whose 1985 novel Half of Man Is Woman shocked the People's Republic with its explicit -- by Chinese standards -- discussion of sex, details them with bitter black humor. Lined up for execution, the main character sees his condemned colleagues fall dead in a hail of bullets. Only he and a young girl remain alive, spared by blanks and cynical commissars. Nearly dead from starvation, he is hauled into a makeshift morgue and buried...
...willing to negotiate over Iraq's grievances. Even the international peace conference that Saddam posits as a price for leaving Kuwait is possible -- or at least the promise of such a meeting is. The U.S. desire to avoid linkage is basically a semantic exercise, and the offers of explicit linkage carried by middlemen like the French and the Algerians could at any time be used by Saddam to save face. Were he to decide to leave Kuwait, the list of creative ways for the Iraqi leader to portray himself heroically is virtually limitless -- and some in Washington indicate that...
Harkin wanted to introduce a resolution co-sponsored by fellow Democrat Brock Adams of Washington that would prohibit Bush from attacking Iraqi forces without "explicit authorization" from Congress. Mitchell looked surprised and angry. Though for weeks he had been asserting in public that only Congress has the constitutional power to declare war, he was anxious to avoid a debate before the Jan. 9 meeting between Baker and Aziz in Geneva. "This is the place," he replied to Harkin, then added, "I don't think it's the time." But among the rank and file, the attitude...
...explicit sexuality goes, it's pretty tame. A nipple here, a nuzzle there--we're not talking hard-core pornography. As far as implicit innuendo goes, there's nothing too shocking, either. A bisexual fantasy here, an S&M fantasy there--fantasies about consenting adults never hurt anyone, not even Rev. Wildmon...