Word: implicitly
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...feeling of 2003 were still evident. You could hear it in the snappy tone of a senior Saudi official, insisting that the Iraq war had made the task of reformers (like him, naturally) harder. You heard it, above all, in the constant use of the term "imposition," with its implicit message that the U.S. was attempting to dictate to others its own sense of how they should organize their politics, societies and economies. And you could feel it in the mutters that rippled through the Congress Hall when Cheney unapologetically said that Saddam Hussein's "long efforts to acquire weapons...
...program, not just to free the U.S. from its dependence on foreign oil but also to develop new environmental technologies that could replace dwindling manufacturing jobs. All the Democrats now have similar plans, but Kerry pushes his more assiduously than the others do--and he offers it as an implicit alternative to the harsh protectionism (and thus higher prices) pushed by Dean and Gephardt...
...Chen may be refraining from calling a referendum on sovereignty, but that's unlikely to appease China. Not lost on Beijing is the message implicit in Chen's Nov. 29 announcement to call a referendum: in the face of Chinese aggression, Taiwan?for the first time since it split with China in 1949?has the legal means by which to hold a nationwide vote on independence. "It's a powerful weapon for mustering emotional support from the international community should any threat be made by China to Taiwan's sovereignty," says a DPP official. "It's precisely the kind...
...student who works at the admissions office interprets Harvard’s take differently. By his account, Harvard admissions officers work from “implicit classism” when they determine what it means to be qualified...
...Planetary protection” contains an implicit acknowledgement that scientific knowledge is never final or complete. We have been wrong before in the history of space exploration, and we should not wager our planet’s safety on the assumption that we need not worry about extraterrestrial life accidentally brought back to Earth. All of our ideas about life elsewhere are based on extrapolation from one example—Earth life—and science is not at its best when basing sweeping conclusions on a sample size of one. Although common sense strongly suggests that the threats...