Word: overtness
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...part, Shultz noted the difficulty of devising a formula for Angola that would be "effective." Nonetheless, word leaked out last week that the Administration was prepared to send covert aid to Savimbi. Various Congressmen have also proposed several UNITA aid bills, including one calling for $27 million in overt military assistance and another for $41 million...
...clubs, including subsidized University steam heat and Centrex phone service. But by keeping silent on the deeper issues of the clubs' existence, Harvard's leadership and student body continue to offer substantive credibility to the clubs' claim to legitimacy. The University did something last year to end its overt support for the clubs; it's now time for students, especially the handful of men faced with today's decision, to attack from the other direction. The Owl Club backyard: Barriers to entry
...networks' position reeks of hypocrisy. In their daytime and evening soap operas alone, the networks present several hours of programming each day with overt sexual themes. Rarely are the responsibilities of sex--or its consequences--explored. Instead, adolescent viewers learn only what they want to do. The how part they're left to figure out for themselves, at a cost last year of 280,000 unwanted pregnancies...
...brilliant but young Baldwin trying to grapple with the immensely complex problems of race relations. He claims justly that, "The Progressive Party...has not made any great impression in Harlem," but he has nothing to suggest beyond that failure. He weighs the consequences of the overt racism of the South against the patronizing paternalism of the North and is unable to come up with many answers. His youthful pieces provide a vivid and insightful description of what the problems of race really are, but they do not propose solutions...
...sexier these days can easily be determined by twirling a television dial, dropping by a local movie theater or checking the sales of X-rated video cassettes. Explains Roy Grace, vice chairman of the Doyle Dane Bernbach Group: "As a society, we're becoming more accepting of overt sexuality." In an era that has seen steamy prime-time soaps like Dallas and Dynasty become popular hits, and that nonchalantly accepts frank discussions of incest and bisexuality on Phil Donahue's show, erotic ads merely reflect the tone of the times. Says John Ferrell, creative director of the Young & Rubicam agency...