Word: implicitly
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Smoking is an unhealthy habit, and it is certainly in the interest of the government to make people aware of its long-term consequences. However, the paternalistic attitude implicit in the cigarette tax ought to make governments wary of imposing drastic increases in cigarette taxes, or any sin tax for that matter. In the event more local governments, including Boston’s, decide to raise cigarette taxes, they should guide their decision not by attempting to punish smokers, but by reasonable estimates of what will internalize the negative consumption externality of smoking...
...that it only speaks of non-discrimination of membership. We do not believe that the constitution of HRCF violates the University policy, and the council exists to fund University-approved clubs. We are more than willing to add a clause to our constitution that makes explicit what is already implicit: that anyone is welcome to become a member. For those students who object in principle to their money being spent to fund organizations like ours, it is important to note that the $35 activity fee on the term bill is optional...
...BGLTSA uses its social gatherings to make political statements, with its dances carrying the implicit message that, “At Harvard, GLBT students and their friends are free to openly gather and flirt and have fun together,”says LaFlamme...
...achievements in literature, philosophy, history, music, art, and science.” As a result, all Columbia graduates must have read the literature of, among others, Homer, Dante and Montaigne as well as the philosophy of Plato, Aristotle and Locke. And, yes, Shakespeare and Kant are also featured. The implicit logic behind Columbia’s list of mandatory texts is that some works are especially worthy of study, either for aesthetic or historical reasons. That said, Columbia has been willing to adapt its curriculum over time and, to popular acclaim, recently added the Koran to reflect the increasingly multicultural...
...absence of signs that read “this way to your family farm,” my aunt navigated using implicit directions; subtle bends in a stream and large rocks directed us. Along the way, a young boy, about eight years old, and his sister, probably nine, ran toward us like long-lost friends. My sister and I had never seen them before, but they knew who we were: the children born in America who didn’t speak our mother’s language, who had never been to Vietnam, who had never met our grandfather...