Word: explicitness
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...biggest danger to Prague's inflexible leadership is an explicit Soviet disavowal of the 1968 invasion. Amazingly, that might be in the offing. Rude Pravo reported that Prague's chief of ideology, Jan Gojtik, had met with his Soviet opposite number in Moscow. Rude Pravo confirmed that the two men had dealt "with the history of the relations between the Communist parties, including the year 1968" and that "they reached a full identity of views." It has long been the accepted wisdom among Western and Czechoslovak experts that if the legitimacy of the 1968 invasion were ever officially questioned...
...Handbook for Students, there is a short section entitled "Submission of the Same Work to More Than One Course." Although the description of the rules about dual submissions does not include an explicit rationale for the current policy, I assumed that dual submission was a way of saving time when you had an overly demanding schedule...
...clarify the murky statistics, the Census Bureau is making a major change in family categories when its decennial count begins in April. For the first time, couples living together will have the option to designate themselves "unmarried partners." The bureau has not yet said whether it will get explicit about the precise sexual and emotional relationship that distinguishes "unmarried partners" from another category in the survey, "housemates-roomma tes." (Those who have to ask can perhaps be assumed to be merely roommates...
...light of the recent debate about ROTC presence on campus, we feel that it is important to examine homophobia and the role it plays in the military. Harvard has an explicit policy protecting the rights of gay students. The U.S. military and ROTC are in conflict with this policy because they do not allow gays, lesbians or bisexuals to join the services, claiming that we are more susceptible to blackmail and therefore pose a more serious risk to "national security" than do heterosexuals. Two recent studies commissioned by the Department of Defense (D O D) have shown that the claim...
...Each president has his own specific reasons," Orleans said yesterday. "But I think one explicit reason was the difficulty that the game would conflict with the exam schedules of certain schools...