Word: explicitness
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...majority position. Crimson readers should not be led to think, however, that the reasons for rejection stated in the majority position constitute The Crimson's advertising policy. In fact, the Crimson has no ad policy other than to reject all ads for cigarettes. Because The Crimson lacks an explicit advertising policy, it is impossible to accurately articulate the reasons for rejecting the Screw ad and inappropriate to attempt to do so. The Crimson would be judicious to determine clearly stated criteria for accepting and rejecting ads before articulating a position in an editorial...
...unintentional influx one year was causing its prestige to flag; about what an ICC president told one of them privately and with a certain sadness one day, that "anti-Semitism in the clubs is something that can neither be exposed, nor proved, nor cured"; about the tacit and explicit demands of club alumni through the graduate boards that, though a few Jews may be admitted to every club, "they must be kept down to reasonable numbers" and that is why Prospect has so many Jews; about what a club representative had just told one of them quite frankly...
...SITS balanced somewhere between the possible and the actual. Emanating from a private world of thought, science is rarely the straightforward and successful march to accomplishment that so many imagine. Hesitation, compromise, public courage and private honesty are all needed to bridge the gap from the implicit to the explicit. And it takes time. Time to become aware of one's own ideas. times to test those ideas. and time to doubt those ideas. And in a world of shrinking grants and budgetary stripmining. time is running out faster than the money that pays...
Within moments of Hinckley's arrest the FBI dispatched its agents to weave a net of evidence that would form the legal case against him. They found the unmailed letter to Jodie Foster in his Washington hotel room ?a note that amounted to a highly explicit confession. The investigators also found a tape recording of telephone conversations between Hinckley and a woman who might have been Foster; it is possible that Hinckley made the calls anonymously...
...paintings by figures on the edge of the impressionist group-like Henri Fantin-Latour, whose portrait of his two sisters embroidering and reading is one of the most affecting icons of intimacy in all 19th century art-one wishes the connections between the two had been made somewhat more explicit, even at the risk of covering familiar ground again...