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...boycott, as it turned out, brightened the mood of the Games, if not necessarily the quality of the competition. The success of the Games was Ueberroth's, and America's, unanswerable reply to the Soviets. The Games drew a vivid implicit contrast between American and Soviet styles--the American Games all light and air and flashing motion (the essence of freedom dramatized), while the Soviets sulked in their totalitarian dusk...
...said it was not age: Reagan has always been sloppy with the facts. During the mid-'60s, Americans sometimes supported Lyndon Johnson's actions in Viet Nam by saying, "Well, the President has more information than we do, and so can more readily make these decisions." The implicit line of some of the Reagan defenders was the reverse: that the President has a mind unencumbered by facts-the sort of details, they mean, that used to bog Jimmy Carter down. Reagan can stand on the bridge of the ship of state, point the general direction...
...Senate report was seen by some as an implicit rebuke to the Defense Intelligence Agency, which leaked its own report critical of the State Department for not paying enough heed to DIA reports about potential terrorist activity. "We did not mean to come down on the State Department side," said a committee staffer, but, he added, "DIA, by leaking the report, did not help the debate...
...visit the art museum are Cambridge residents; more than 1000 of them hold memberships. But opponents of the bridge say that it would be large and obtrusive, blocking light and distracting motorists. Some feel that the University's willingness to pay $16,000 in "air rights" is an implicit admission that the bridge would be intrusive...
...first argument against Harvard's divestment is that such an action would cause the University to lose its autonomy. Bok writes that there is an implicit agreement between institutions and corporations to stay out of each other's business. If we were to begin pressuring corporations to behave ethically, then corporations would begin to pressure us to remove certain professors with "radical opinions," to change our positions toward ROTC or "involvement in covert CIA activities." Besides the obvious and pathetic attempt at demogoguery, President Bok's reasoning is simply invalid...