Word: explicitness
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...case has forced us to look at rape and all that it can entail--the attitudes of the alleged rapists, who testified that they thought the woman was enjoying it, the ordeal of the woman who has the strength to press charges and the sexually explicit details...
...school says, "Pray (or do what you feel like)," a child assumes that prayer is a part of learning. Finally, school prayer violates a fundamental assumption of American life, one that has something to do with privacy, something with freedom of speech, and something less codified and explicit: that one ought to be able to retain one's humanity without being made to feel a pariah in one's own country...
...nation searched in vain through the budget message for fiscal 1985 for any reply to the obvious next question: What does the President propose to do to ward off the dangers he so starkly portrayed? Not until his separate economic message the next day did Reagan give an explicit answer: "We must wait until after this year's election" to make any sweeping moves...
...which are known as "problem-remedy" solutions. In 1981 the Civil Rights Commission defined affirmative action as "active efforts that take race, sex, and national origin into account for the purpose of remedying discrimination." The underlying rationale for affirmative action is that discrimination can be overcome only by an explicit consideration of an individual's background. But such a system, charge critics of affirmative action, only constitute another form of racism or "reverse discrimination...
Among the survey's most starting statistics: 49 percent of all female junior faculty members reported experiencing sexual harassment, including 17 percent who reported explicit or physical advances...