Word: explicitness
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...committee studying the second-year program stated that when second-year students were surveyed about the year, "the most commonly used adjective, by far, was 'boring.' Other often used words were 'routine' and 'repetitive'." Officials hope to diversify the program by increasing emphasis on independent study and "an explicit policy of facilitating experimentation, innovation and variety in the content and process of second year courses...
...involved in anything, at any level, that won't pump up its already over inflated chest. For instance, my four years here have seen one sector or another of this University refuse to do anything positive about or to take a meaningful stand on apartheid in South America, explicit rights for gay undergraduates, and a pervasive lack of American History courses...
...issues without actually confronting their feelings about homosexuality. Even someone who felt uncomfortable attending Gay and Lesbian Awareness Day (GLAD)--an annual event whose attendance has been dropping discouragingly--could stand firmly on the moral conviction that denying GSA space in registration packets because they were gay showed explicit prejudice and injustice. Put another way dealing in formalized issues obviated the necessity to reform deep instilled impressions of homosexuality...
However, American policy does not depend solely on the progress and outcome of the NATO summit conference. Equally decisive will be an explicit and convincing effort to remove the spreading unease that some Americans feel about Western Europe and about the political future of West Germany. These doubts, together with the clear and probing questions as to whether American soldiers are still really welcome over here or whether our country wishes to proceed along a separate path between East and West, were what I encountered time and time again during my visit to Washington in March, in talks with politicians...
Administration aides leave no doubt that this is a deliberate political game. The President is preparing to denounce Congress if it produces a budget resolution with gargantuan deficits, and to take the credit if it somehow passes a plan to stem the red ink. Reagan has been explicit on only one point, there must be no tampering with the third stage of his cherished income tax cuts, a 10% reduction that will take effect in July...