Word: implicitly
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Many women can tell the story of a friend or relative who looked at her and said, "If you really wanted to be married, you'd be married." The comment can sometimes slap like a wet towel, in part because it is true and in part because of its implicit message: You could have compromised, perhaps settled, and been among the married. And so, the logic follows, you have no one to blame but yourself...
...redefinition of fatherhood has been going on in virtually every arena of American life for well over 20 years. As women worked to broaden their choices at home and work, the implicit invitation was for men to do likewise. As Levine has observed, Dr. Spock had carefully revised his advice on fathers by 1974. The earlier version suggested that fathers change the occasional diaper and cautioned mothers about "trying to force the participation of fathers who get gooseflesh at the very idea of helping to take care of a baby." The new version of Baby and Child Care, by contrast...
...honor." Honor is wonderful and admirable, but it cannot be willed upon a group of young men and women. Ethics courses and elegant speeches about the value of integrity are not enough to curb academic dishonesty. Thompson seems to think honest students are hurt by the expression of mistrust implicit in using Turnitin. Those students are smart enough to know that they are hurt much more if the authenticity of their good work is questioned and their achievements are undermined because their peers are able to earn the same marks for papers obtained with a credit card instead...
...have this implicit agreement that I get Diet Coke for life in exchange for my having to go entertain him and write papers with him,” Zeckhauser jokes...
...This was the implicit undertaking of former University President Lawrence H. Summers. He concluded that more emphasis was needed in the areas of global studies and the sciences, particularly the life sciences. The University has largely followed through with this effort, raising hundreds of millions of dollars for new biotechnology initiatives and planning much of the Allston campus around life sciences ventures. This spring, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences recommitted to hiring more science professors—despite an undergraduate-faculty ratio already more favorable than in the humanities or social sciences...