Word: explicitness
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...sure, Greenspan would never say that--or anything else so explicit. He once quipped that on taking over the Fed in 1987, he learned "to mumble with great incoherence." Nor does he buy the wildest new-economy talk. He dismisses as "less than credible" any idea that "we need no longer be concerned about the risk that inflation can rise again." Greenspan is on guard, a renowned numbers cruncher who keeps tabs on the most obscure corners of the economy. Robin Leigh-Pemberton, former governor of the Bank of England, once remarked that at conferences Greenspan was likely to back...
...singing Vaughan Williams' "God Bless the Master." Between each section, conductors Jameson Marvin and Constance DeFotis invited the audience to stand and sing Christmas carols with the choirs. It was difficult for those in the audience to refrain from applauding until the very end of the concert, despite the explicit instruction on the programs...
Instead, they expose the implicit and explicit ways majorities, even in the best intentioned places, endow their traditions with universal acceptance and shield them under the guise of secular neutrality...
...think the machines should be monitored," Jackie S. Roberts said. The mother of two boys, age 10 and 11, who attend the Haggerty School, Roberts said she worries that while children may not seek explicit sites, they may arrive at them accidentally...
Bode calls the infrastructure fund "a $30 [out of $100] tax for the purported welfare of the Internet. NSF has no authority to levy such an assessment or tax without explicit Congressional authority...