Word: explicitness
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...Pakaluk writes: "There is, I hold, a direct link between widespread acceptance of the mores of sexual promiscuity and a decline in the liberal arts....And I hold, furthermore, that Harvard, insofar as it takes no step to encourage chastity among its students, adopts a policy that undermines its explicit dedication to liberal learning." He goes on to argue that the University should actively encourage chastity in the student body...
...Jamie Raskin, a third-year law student who also had his registration packet withheld, said, "There was no threat implicit or explicit to deny me the opportunity to register...
...they will have to pass a urine test in order to get or keep a good job -- or join a sports team or stay in school or whatever -- they are less likely to dabble with drugs. Employees who fail can be steered toward treatment programs, under an implied or explicit threat of being fired if they refuse. Look, for example, at what happened in the U.S. armed forces after they intensified random mass urine tests four years ago. In 1980, when tests were infrequent, 27% of some 20,000 military personnel surveyed admitted that they had used drugs during...
...Mafia's tradition of omerta, the code of silence, is explicit: betray the family and pay with your life. But beginning with the televised confessions of Cosa Nostra Songbird Joseph Valachi in 1963, that code has been repeatedly violated. At the racketeering trial of reputed Mafia Boss John Gotti last week in Brooklyn federal court, omerta suffered one of its rudest shocks...
...case may have more serious implications for Catholic higher education than the removal of one professor. Church law requires that anyone teaching theology at a Catholic university -- even one not chartered by the Vatican, as C.U. is -- must have an explicit commission from a bishop, called a "canonical mandate." Some legal experts argue that this requirement represents a potential infringement on academic freedom, and if challenged in court, could jeopardize publicly provided funding for Catholic institutions...