Word: explicitness
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Anderson also said that Calkins' explicit confirmation of Harvard's investment policy has enabled campus groups to get together and demand changes in the University's South African policy...
...While preaching nonintervention, Reich notes, the White House has been unable to resist demands for subsidies and import relief made by such industries as steel and autos. This protection, he says, keeps businesses from adapting to the rigors of worldwide competition. Reich would replace capricious protectionist measures with an explicit industrial policy aimed at retraining unemployed workers for new jobs and channeling investment into technologically advanced products that would enable U.S. companies to keep pace in the growth race...
...seasons began by breaking down time into usable units: a time to plow, a time to sow, a time to reap. Distinctly, intensely different periods of the year calibrated time and made it manageable. They enforced disciplines. Now, people often create their own units of usable time without such explicit reference to the external seasons. There are the business seasons and the school seasons. There are model years for cars and fiscal years for budgets. Those man-made schedules are wheels within the abiding great wheel, less noticed now, of the calendar...
...perhaps in her most recent history, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century, that Tuchman's parallel is most explicit. "The Bomb is very much a factor in everyone's mind," she says, "and I wanted to find out what was the effect on society of a massive destructive force." Tuchman had originally intended to focus the book on the Black Death," the most lethal disaster in recorded history" which ---between 1308 and 1350--killed an estimated one-third of the population living between India and Ireland. The book eventually expanded to cover the entire century, a period when "assumptions...
Among major faiths, there is general agreement that it is morally permissible to allow a person to die if therapy would not lead to recovery. Views diverge, however, when this principle is applied to specific situations. The Roman Catholic Church has the most explicit position. The Vatican's 1980 declaration on euthanasia clearly permits an end to treatment that would only "secure a precarious and burdensome prolongation of life" when death is imminent. Says Rabbi Seymour Siegel of New York's Jewish Theological Seminary: "It is the individual's duty to live as long...