Word: explicitness
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...stating specifically that the procedures now in place for disciplining offenders are satisfactory the report contradicts the view of some RUS members who have urged the University to adopt a more explicit policy more clearly describing what actions constitute sexual harassment, and what kind of punishment may result...
...major points discussed at the meeting was whether to tell student victims even less than they are now told about the resolution of their cases, because students who have explicit details then have the power to reveal this information to the press...
Bruce should be an example to us all on hour to shorten long passages One example from Dickens suffices. Great Expectations begins. "My father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit that Pip." The Great Expectation version: "My name is Pip Pirrip," Punchy and to the point...
...almost impossible to become emotional about this movie. Lookin' To Get Out shies away from engaging the audience, always keeping us at a distance. Because it provides no explicit answers and only half-baked questions, we are forced to read things into it that may or may not be there. The audience guesses that Alex is an insecure dreamer; but in the context of the film itself-in the world according to Hal Ashby-we have very little basis for this judgement. Lookin' To Get Our leaves us feeling empty, wanting a great deal more than this film...
...Israel's role in the massacre. The move was an about-face by Begin, who had initially refused to consider such a probe. Instead, he had sought to limit the political damage by appointing Supreme Court Chief Justice Yitzhak Kahan, 69, as a special investigator but one without explicit authority to compel witnesses to testify or to demand documents. Begin's chosen investigator did not go along with the plan. Since two petitions demanding a full-scale judicial commission of inquiry had been filed with the Supreme Court, Kahan informed the government that he could not consider...