Word: explicitness
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...language adopts and tacitly supports SLAM’s arguments that janitors’ wages and benefits are not sufficient, even if it does not specifically endorse SLAM’s proposed $20 an hour solution. The resolution also “calls on the University to honor the explicit promises it made to custodial workers in 2002.” Though the notion of honoring contractual promises seems non-political, it is a matter of dispute between the two parties. For instance, SLAM claims it was a contractual obligation to have 60 percent of janitors be full-time employees...
...offered unstinting support for Bush's war in Iraq. Since 2004, the Japanese Prime Minister has dispatched around 550 troops to Iraq, where they remain, evidence that Japan still numbers itself among Bush's "coalition of the willing." Koizumi's newly-appointed Foreign Affairs Minister Taro Aso is explicit on how the government sees its priorities and ranks its friends. "Japan," Aso said on Nov. 2, "should first continue to build strong relations with America and, based on this, deepen relations with other Asian nations...
...with the University. Its existing contract is set to expire tomorrow. The UC resolved “that workers at Harvard deserve to be paid at a level commensurate with that of other universities in the area” and called “on the University to honor explicit promises it made to custodial workers in 2002.” Some members expressed discomfort with the resolution, questioning whether workers’ rights properly came under the jurisdiction of a council focused on student issues. “This is something that students should support on their...
...complaints about the unfairness of a process that alienates a large majority of campus. In theory, I agree with all the charges. Yet I still go. I’ve never been especially distressed that final clubs don’t allow women within their ranks. Sure, the explicit insult to half of the student body rubs me the wrong way, but in the end the same students—male and female—would inhabit them and the same would be excluded. Bee girls might merge with Fly guys, and the Isis could legitimate its bonds with...
...researching this winter and will write next is about an aunt, my mother’s sister, who’s lived in Pakistan for 30 years. It’s nonfiction and it might be a novel. I’ve had enough explicit autobiography for awhile...