Word: explicitness
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...citizen group's primary objection to Operation 2000, however, is that "Mount Auburn has not done sufficient explicit planning with other health organizations in the city" to determine if there is a need for increased services, said Duchay...
...remedy the effects of past discrimination against blacks and women it is sometimes necessary to discriminate against white men. The Government shied from stating the proposition so boldly, but beginning with the Nixon Administration it put the principle into practice. Throughout the '70s Washington pressed employers to set explicit goals and timetables for the hiring of minorities, even if that meant tacitly accepting "reverse discrimination...
...Court to make some kind of definitive pronouncement on affirmative action. In the 1978 Bakke decision the Justices barred racial quotas in university admissions, but at the same time they appeared to endorse the principle of affirmative action. And a year later, in the Weber case, the court upheld explicit hiring quotas in a voluntary affirmative action plan. Says Duke University Law Professor William Van Alstyne: "There is serious strain within the court...
...Kennedy's assassin was not murdered by Jack Ruby, then argued the case that Kennedy was slain by a conspiracy. CBS's Kill Me If You Can played down the crimes of Sex Offender Caryl Chessman and dwelt on his slow, gruesome execution in the gas chamber for the explicit purpose of arousing public sentiment against capital punishment. NBC's Kennedy depicted the late FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover as a scheming bureaucratic thug, and the same network's King, also by Abby Mann, suggested that the black civil rights leader was virtually a puppet of white liberals. At minimum...
...result has been a series of U.S. threats, both explicit and implied, to suspend military cooperation with New Zealand if Lange refuses to give in. Such an approach may raise hackles Down Under even more. New Zealanders resent any kind of pressure, from Australia or the U.S.; Australians are only slightly less sensitive to strong-arm tactics, wherever they may come from. New Zealanders are divided in the current national debate. Recent polls show that while 58% of the New Zealand population of 3.2 million opposes visits by nuclear-armed warships, 59% would not be troubled by calls by ships...