Word: implicitly
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Soon after his arrival, he instituted two informal committees, one on financial resources and one on educational policy, that would engineer dramatic changes—including substantial reductions in concentration requirements and doubling the number of freshman seminars—without any technical authority. Knowles’ implicit backing of the committees enabled sizable policy changes to be implemented expeditiously, without bogging down in debate at Faculty meetings...
...implicit, populist message to viewers: Fox News doesn't think it's better than you (unless you're the competition). It is not handing down news on tablets; it is not ashamed to look like Access Hollywood. Its on-air talent is colloquial--"Slammed on the floor!" said a reporter describing Janet Reno's public fainting spell last week, as if she had been upended by The Rock--with less patrician polish than traditional newscasts. It's a far cry from William F. Buckley--a conservative haven that appeals to social-class resentment. O'Reilly, the highest-rated host...
...that he’d hook up with BC hottie Gretchen Murphy after she replied favorably to an e-mail he wrote that read, “Come to Harvard, yo. I’ll show you a good time.” Nitrell explains: “Look, implicit in ‘I’ll show you a good time’ is ‘I’ll show you a good time... on my nuts...
...FDE’s also have going for them perhaps the most unifying force in existence: a broken rule. Anyone underage who has bought from an FDE has taken a risk, and there is an implicit, and sometimes explicit, fraternity between all the patrons in such an establishment. Just for having gained entrance, or more precisely for having the courage to enter, everyone feels at home, linked to each other by, if nothing else, the subtly strong twinge of shared excitement at being partners in a victimless crime...
...Sharon's statement, and asserted that Washington would continue to work with Arafat. Still, the Israeli decision left little reason for General Anthony Zinni to remain in the region hoping against hope to broker a cease-fire by prevailing on Arafat to crack down on Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Implicit in Sharon's announcement was the assertion that Israel is no longer expecting a truce with Arafat, but essentially looking instead to replace him. In an interview published Friday, Sharon said Arafat was "history" and that Israel would seek to negotiate with local-level Palestinian leaders...