Word: explicitness
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Meanwhile, Okhotin alleges, customs officials proceeded to make the first of several explicit offers for him to bribe them with a portion of the money he had brought for impoverished protestant churches. After asking for $10,000 initially, Okhotin says—upon the delivery of which he says they promised he would be released—an official knocked the offer down...
...very explicit form of extortion,” he says...
...also loses its sense of direction in the final chapter, just as he reaches what he has described throughout the book as the ultimate Zone?Burning Man, a weeklong celebration of self-expression held every year in the Nevada desert. He is able to describe his emotional collapse in explicit terms: "Everything had become scattered, fragmented. A day was not made up of 24 hours but of 86,400 seconds, and those did not flow into one another?so that, as a consequence, there was not enough time to get anything done." But, at journey's end, he seems unable...
...most important issue in this case, the Court ruled 5-4, in Grutter v. Bollinger, that colleges and universities can continue to use race as long as they find less explicit ways to do so than the University of Michigan's undergraduate program, which rewarded minority applicants 20 points on a 100 point scale in the admission process. The Court said that Michigan's goal of a "critical mass" of minorities to ensure diversity was important enough to justify the use of race in admissions. Most colleges and universities say they use a more holistic approach which factors in race...
Students focused their efforts on rallying the campus, not dividing it. No major student organization drafted an explicit statement categorically opposing...