Word: explicitness
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...faces are familiar, soon the figures may be too. Shedding modeldom's longtime penchant for mystery in the competitive and highly sensitive area of fees, New York City's aggressive Elite agency recently provided clients with an astonishingly explicit schedule of the hourly and daily rates of its stable of talent. Although the fee for a high-profile beauty like Carol Alt, 21 (Lancôme), is listed as "negotiable" - meaning that if you have to ask, you probably can't afford her - the agency nonetheless appears to have something to offer almost any budget. Prices begin...
...massive rearmament, and a propensity for bellicose rhetoric that has frightened its allies and its own citizens more than it has restrained its adversaries. Administration officials have made numerous statements suggesting a policy shift from the traditional imperative of deterring nuclear war to a new, or at least more explicit, preparedness to wage such a war if necessary...
...line mini was a kind of manifesto at the feminist barricades. The first cutoff skirts of Great Britain's Mary Quant, recalls Fashion Writer Suzy Menkes in the London Times, "were conceived as a rejection of everything that existing fashion stood for." They were also "an explicit sexual statement. Today's minis are far less predatory, and when they are worn over thick tights with leg warmers and big sweaters, they are a lot less revealing than a pair of stretch jeans...
...circumstances led to an even more abhorrent outcome. Associate Dean for Education Sidney Verba, in a letter for the Faculty Council, told us: "The Faculty Council will not accept special representation for designated groups." What this meant to us was that if someone could not be elected because of explicit or implicit discrimination, or if certain segments of the undergraduate population were unrepresented, or if the majority got whatever it wanted, even at the expense of the minority--too bad. Justice, to the Faculty it seems, is less important than "basic democratic principles," including the democratic reality that 51 percent...
...American Lung Association later picked up the campaign. The Civil Aeronautics Board has eased the regulation requiring airlines to provide no-smoking sections and is considering dropping the rule altogether. The Government has so far failed to take a position on bills pending in Congress that would require more explicit warning labels on cigarette packages. Among the proposed candidates: "Warning: Cigarette smoking is the number one cause of emphysema and lung cancer"; "Warning: Cigarette smoking is a major cause of heart disease"; "Warning: Cigarette smoking by pregnant women may result in birth defects or spontaneous abortion." Says John Banzhaf, executive...