Word: overtness
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...slayings will have on the country. One architecture student in Cuernavaca said that the students' political situation was so impossible that violence can only lead to more despair. Just as revolution is undesirable for Mexico while it rapidly progresses towards development, with an increasingly better economic situation, change through overt political channels in this virtually one-party country is impossible, he said...
...have discussed... the difficulties faced by women who attempt to combine family and career. But we do not believe that these difficulties entirely explain the absence of women on the Harvard faculty. We are not arguing, on the other hand, that the depressing figures are due entirely to overt discrimination, although we have found evidence of discrimination just as we have found evidence of career difficulties. To a considerable extent, the present situation must be explained by Harvard's history. A male bastion for more than three centuries, growing over time from a denominational men's college to a major...
...expropriate civilian property. Lincoln himself almost supplanted the courts during the Civil War. Nor have the courts been eager to second-guess these emergency, uses of executive authority. Even ex parte Milligan, the famous Court decision which rebuked Lincoln for suspending habeas corpus, depended on the finding that no overt violence occurred in that area on which Lincoln imposed martial...
...said that Administration pressure might possibly make a difference "subliminally, but I'm sure there would be no overt pressure from the Administration...
...exchange-by-mail between McAlister and Berrigan constitutes two of the 35 "overt acts" which are listed in the new indictment. In addition, the alleged exchange is cited as grounds for indicting McAlister, Ahmad, and Berrigan under a statute which forbids sending threatening letters through the mail...