Word: implicitly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...much explicit sexuality. Too much implicit innuendo. Too much immorality. Too much controversy. Free expression is fine and dandy, MTV officials explained, but this time, Madonna has gone too far. At least that's what our advertisers tell...
...reason is that the movement is young, and the meaning of environmentalism is changing in subtle and profound ways. Not so long ago, "old thinking" had the environment tucked away in parks and rural areas, an amenity for the relatively affluent to appreciate on weekends. Implicit in this attitude was the idea that ecology was irrelevant to businessmen and policymakers concerned with the real issues of the day and that mankind could somehow get along without focusing on the environment...
...edged away from the central demand: Iraq must get out of Kuwait. But whether, and to what extent, the other members will continue to back American ideas on how to achieve that goal -- especially as Washington comes closer and closer to converting what has always been an implicit threat of war to a very explicit one -- remains uncertain...
Bradley could be a straight shooter again -- it is in him somewhere -- and he insists that he gets the message implicit in his close call: "I hear what the voters are saying; they don't think politicians have a lot to offer." But does he really get it? Bradley still won't say where he stands on New Jersey's new tax scheme, and he maintains that if he had it to do all over, he would do nothing differently. Bradley's boosters have long agonized about him as a presidential candidate because he is so often boring. They must...
...wrangling over deficit reduction this year, most of the participants from both parties assumed at first that the Department of Defense would have to accept major spending cuts. But then came the gulf conflict, and the hoped- for peace dividend began to fade. Budget summiteers made an implicit agreement not to wreak hardship on the military. In the end, the budget resolution set Pentagon spending for fiscal 1991 at $288.3 billion, a reduction of $19 billion from the President's request...