Word: implicitly
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...Stringer's appointment-with its implicit acknowledgment that there was no Japanese sufficiently qualified to lead the company-is evidence of how hard Japan Inc. now finds it to pull off the double act that Morita once handled so well. To an extent, the troubles of corporate Japan are a function of a long period of economic stagnation. During the boom years of the 1970s and '80s, Japan Inc.'s single-minded focus on engineering and process development-not to mention a resistance to foreign ideas-were hallmarks of the country's rapid economic progress and a source of national...
Perhaps, in an ideal world, Bush would be right. Unfortunately, in practice, faith-based programs impart an implicit bias in their messages, methods, and interaction with those they help. They cannot help it. After all, most of these groups hire employees only of their own creed (a practice which Bush supports...
...moral complexities My Jim purports to expose are already present in Huck’s own narrative. While Rawles has provided a reasonably interesting supplement to Twain’s book, her “nuanced critique” articulates few moral problems that weren’t already implicit in the work of her forbearer. The agonistic endgame, the technique of recalling a predecessor’s work with the aim of unsettling or revising it, is at least as old as Ovid’s Heroides. My Jim is an effort in good faith...
...Implicit in the recent discussion of University President Lawrence H. Summers’ remarks is a debate over the nature of the presidency of Harvard. One view is that our president should be a pleasant figurehead who presides over a growing endowment and speaks donation-related platitudes. The other view, which I favor, is that our president ought to be an active intellectual, someone who participates fully in the scholarly life, engages in academic debates, and sometimes even throws out hypotheses that are wrong...
Banaji wrote in an e-mail from India yesterday that “the implicit, not to mention explicit, stereotype associating math with male has been demonstrated time and again to affect women’s performance on math and their attitudes toward math...