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Steiner said yesterday that he expected the current case might provide "sup- porting basis" for a suit against virtually all termpaper companies on the basis that they breached an "implicit educational contract" between universities and students...
...human differences (individual and group, environmental and genetic) is an integral part of my subject, and my subject, like any other academic discipline, may properly be set before the general public in an open society. And not only do I disagree with you, I reject the tone of implicit moral superiority in your letter. I do not believe, and you have not proved, that free and honest discussion of human differences will promote racial injustice or retard its termination. And that, whether you recognize it or not, is actually the issue between us. R.J. Herrnstein...
Washington worries that an overwhelming Soviet presence in the Indian Ocean might raise an implicit threat to the Strait of Malacca, through which Japan gets its oil from the Middle East, as well as to Indonesia and even Australia. The U.S. until now has had only a brace of destroyers and the Valcour, an ex-seaplane tender stationed at the former British base in Bahrain. From now on, though, task forces from the Seventh Fleet will be periodically patrolling the strategic sea lanes and showing neutral nations something other than the Russian flag...
Such an argument is so deficient as to be insulting: deficient in its implicit analysis of history, economics, sociology, and social philosophy; Insulting in its fear to declare itself fully as the advocate of an end to all programs of assistance designed to help right three centuries' wrongs...
...footage compiled by Producers Burton Benjamin and Robert Chandler and Correspondent David Schoumacher added up to an implicit indictment of governmental agencies in general for their spying on citizens. But in accordance with strict new guidelines laid down by the network after the Pentagon episode, the producers took pains to avoid misleading editing...