Word: explicitness
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...application of the War Powers Act. Under the law, which was passed in 1973 by a Congress weary of the Viet Nam War, a President who sends U.S. troops to places where "imminent involvement in hostilities" is likely must notify Congress within 48 hours. After that, he must receive explicit congressional support for his action; otherwise the mission must be ended within 90 days...
BOUNCERS AND BARTENDERS in the Commonwealth may have to weed a lot more minors from majors this year, as the legislature seems intent on raising the drinking age to 21. With the probable backing of the legislative and executive leadership, and a lack of any explicit opposition, the date the law goes into effect appears all that is uncertain about the proposal. That is unfortunate, because boosting the drinking age by one year would be not only unfair but ineffective in its ostensible purpose--preventing traffic deaths. It would simply be a gratuitous slap at the state's young adults...
...sometimes gets bogged down in overwrought academic analysis and jargon. He has an irritating tendency to resuscitate his general premises and conclusions every 20 pages or so; maybe he's thinking of some tenure committee somewhere. The point that he weaves implicitly into the work is made clumsily explicit, with repeated statments that this or that action in baseball integration reflected some' rational trend. His twisted explanation, moreover, for why white players in the 1890s rejected interracial competition--that it was a reflection of the "culture of professionalism" emerging at the end of the 19th century in America...
...CCSR's reponse to the ACSR's recommendations proved to be a bitter disappointment to myself and the other student members on the Committee. The CCSR refused to commit itself to the exclusive use of the Sullivan Principles--or any other fixed or explicit set of principles--as the standard to rate corporate behavior. It acknowledged that indefinitely long dialogue with companies was "not a satisfactory course of action," yet it avoided establishing any definite deadlines on such dialogue. In response to the ACSR's most minimal recommendation--for the use of ethical criteria in investment decisions--the CCSR indicated...
...what he had, in legend, accomplished; neither his identity nor his military prowess could have been in doubt. Fitzgerald's rendition of Virgil's famous introduction may offend purists. It is not, strictly speaking, literal, but something more than that: a recapturing of implicit meanings in explicit terms...