Word: explicitness
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...Professor of the History of Science Everett I. Mendelsohn, said yesterday that the Faculty had entered “a period of tension—in some ways a period of crisis.” The aim of the Ulrich-led subcommittee is “to make very explicit and public that the council was involved” in the dean search, Mendelsohn said.Mendelsohn noted that the council will advise Summers on “qualifications we think should be there” in the next dean.The council instructed the five-member subcommittee to work over the coming days...
...Zawahiri's latest diatribe also a coded warning of an impending Qaeda attack? He made no explicit threat, and refrained from even mentioning the notion of avenging the U.S. strike. Yet, intelligence officials are debating whether the tape is intended as a justification of a coming attack. Though couching al-Qaeda's war in defensive rather than offensive terms, Zawahiri noted that he was "participating" in jihad "until we defeat...
...specifically delineated in the statute. See Lambert v. Executive Director of the Judicial Nominating Council, 425 Mass. 406, 409 (1997) (records of judicial nominating council not "public records" subject to disclosure where Governor is not "agency, executive office, department, board, commission, bureau, division or authority" of the Commonwealth within explicit meaning of G.L. c. 4, § 7, Twenty-sixth); Globe Newspaper Co. v. Massachusetts Bay Transp. Auth. Retirement Bd., 416 Mass. 1007, 1007 (1993) (records of retirement board not subject to public disclosure under G.L. c. 66, § 10, where such entity not "board" of Commonwealth under...
...evolution, so as not to provoke controversy,” he said. Hanken said he attributes the American public’s unwillingness to fully accept evolution partly as a result of this circumvention in schools. “First off, evolution and evolutionary biology are given surprisingly little explicit attention in the standard school curriculum in both K-12 and colleges and universities,” Hanken said. “Your average person has been provided with little of the abundant evidence that evolution exists.” Hanken also cited another reason for the general reluctance toward...
...screens to put over their cubicles or establish quiet times when it's not permissible to bother a colleague. In some offices, she says, "workers wear colored hats to signify when they do and do not want to be interrupted." Another simple trick, suggests Spira, is to leave more explicit instructions on e-mail "away messages" and answering machines about how and when you prefer to be interrupted...