Word: implicitly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MERGERS. Implicit in Kennedy's message was a more relaxed Washington attitude toward railroad and airline mergers that would help to eliminate duplicate facilities. Where the Government has previously tended to focus chiefly on the antitrust aspects of mergers, greater weight now seems likely to be given to purely economic considerations. The President pointedly ignored requests by the rail unions that he restrain mergers which might endanger jobs...
Although we feel that a certain maturing process takes place during a student's four years at college, we disagree with the implicit definition of this process expressed in the "Holmes letter." Hopefully, maturing is not a matter of eventual compliance to rules that one has been coerced to follow. It involves a personal decision as to one's individual position, not passive conformity to social pressures...
Proponents of a unilateral reduction in American military power disregard "the implicit dilemma that you can't create brand new policies as if writing on a clean slate," Chayes maintained...
Rudolph admitted that "Nehru is no Gandhi," but observed that "something must have happened" to push him from a moderate position to a violent one. The slipping prestige of India among the "so-called neutral Afro-Asian nations," and the political advantages implicit in a single decisive action, were the precipitating factors, Rudolph asserted...
...what seems at first an attack on extortion seems at last a coyly sensational exploitation of homosexuality as a theme -and, what's more offensive, an implicit approval of homosexuality as a practice...