Word: explicitness
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...longhand. From the days of Vladimir Lenin to the current leadership of Konstantin Chernenko, he said, Moscow's policy has been to promote world revolution. In U.S. eyes the Soviet Union is still an expansionist state, and Americans naturally are worried. The President quickly followed, however, with his explicit recognition of Soviet status as a superpower and disavowal of any American desire to change its system. The U.S., said Reagan, does not seek military superiority over the Kremlin; it wants to deal with the Soviet Union as an equal. Washington and Moscow must work together to keep the competition...
...decades, either on their own accord or at the prompting of the courts, government agencies, schools and private businesses have tried to take affirmative action to provide jobs, educational opportunities and government contracts for minorities. The rub is that these plans sometimes discriminate against whites. While striking down explicit quotas in Bakke, the court has generally backed affirmative action...
...believes that judges should not aggrandize their power by second-guessing other branches of Government. As Solicitor General he opposed court-ordered busing to integrate schools. As a Yale Law School professor, he often accused the federal Judiciary of reading individual rights into the Constitution that were neither explicit nor implied...
Under canon law, a Catholic priest who breaks the confessional "seal" is automatically excommunicated. In U.S. practice, the confidentiality privilege has been extended to non-Catholic clergy and to non-sacramental counseling, with explicit clergy exemptions put into most state laws over the past several decades...
...talk like kids, albeit somewhat obnoxious kids, but taste sometimes get pushed aside by desperate lunges for the cheap laugh, as in, "What's that smell coming out of your sleeping bag?" At times funny, the gross-out school gets simply disgusting at times: contrary to unpopular opinion, explicit vomit scenes aren't cute...