Word: explicitness
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...would ignore the GSA's potent arguments why it--more than fat students or similar groups--deserves the protection of an explicit nondiscrimination policy. Unlike minority applicants for admission to the College, gay students may feel reluctant to enumerate their gay-related activities on an application. A policy forbidding discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation would help allay this fear--along with the physical fear many gay students say they feel on campus...
Weinberger: I guess one reason is that we have the lesson of Vietnam before us. The other is that the instructions that have been given to the 50 trainers who are down there, technicians and so on, are very explicit. They are not to engage in any combat; they're not to go in areas where there has been combat; they're not to go out on combat patrol; they're not to fly helicopters in the combat areas or where there has been combat. They are to engage strictly in training, and in assistance of that kind...
...early '70s, when American and European directors were investigating functions of the apocalyptic orgasm from behind a modernist screen. Like Last Tango in Paris, Rafelson's Postman shows what his doomed lovers do but does not tell who they are. Their willful sex scenes are explicit and incandescent; their motivations are elliptical smoke signals viewed from the other side of Death Valley...
Randolph added that the Gomes report "speaks for itself and is explicit about meeting the needs of Third World students...
...Kremlin leaders complained, with justification, that this heavyhanded attempt to link economic rewards with exit visas constituted interference in their internal affairs. This kind of explicit, narrowly defined "linkage" tends always to stiffen Soviet backs. Linkage must be an underlying factor in the calculations on both sides rather than a stark equation by itself, such as the formula that freer emigration would equal freer trade, or that a Soviet pullout from Afghanistan would equal ratification of SALT...