Word: explicitly
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Olmert's fall is certainly steeper than he anticipated when he took the dive. The Israelis calculated that their campaign, which has included strikes on not just Hizballah targets but also Lebanese roads, bridges and runways as well as a naval blockade--plus the explicit threat of worse to come--would cow Hizballah. In addition to maintaining a militia, the group functions as a political party and has a representative in the Lebanese Cabinet. Hizballah represents the traditionally downtrodden Shi'ites of Lebanon, who live mostly in the south and the Dahiya suburb of Beirut, areas Israel has hit hard...
...British owner of a gambling website was arrested in Texas last week for taking illegal U.S. bets. Experts say online gaming is a legal gray area--which some Senators are pushing to clarify with a vote this week on an explicit...
...face negotiations between President Bush and Pennsylvania Republican Senator Arlen Specter on Tuesday for oversight of Bush's controversial domestic eavesdropping program, the President made one final attempt to retain near-absolute wartime powers. The White House had argued throughout the months of staff-level negotiations that Bush needed explicit acknowledgement of his wartime powers in the Specter bill at the heart of the deal. Once again, Specter rejected it, as his staff had from the start - and Bush capitulated...
...weeks later, the former Treasury secretary criticized “inflation targeting,” which occurs when a central bank dictates an explicit range of desired inflation rates and then pursues a monetary policy designed to reach those rates...
...still must fund an event or project that is not discriminatory—even if the group otherwise excludes members based on gender or religion.UC Finance Committee Chair Lori M. Adelman ’08 blasted the bill, saying that “at the most fundamental level, funding explicit discrimination is something that the UC should not be in the business of doing.” But the council nonetheless voted 26 to 19 for Hadfield’s legislation.It wasn’t Hadfield’s first foray into campus activism. As a freshman, Hadfield...