Word: overtness
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...White House when it comes to national security matters. From the Democrats' perspective, that means plenty of willingness to criticize Bush on all fronts when it comes to his handling of national security and even the use of his war powers - but, at least for now, no overt efforts to curtail them...
...escape the fighting and has suspended aid to 2 million Somalis. It has warned of a bloodbath should Ethiopia try to occupy the capital, and humanitarian agencies have called for a ceasefire. But the U.S. has signaled its tacit support for the offensive, and while it is not providing overt military support, it has long trained Ethiopian troops and is likely to be passing them intelligence and aerial surveillance. Other Western and African nations - including the African Union - have either backed Ethiopia or kept silent. The reason? The fighting is about more than control of an obscure part of eastern...
...Whether overt or not, however, these lies are often more believable if stated with high-flown rhetoric. And you must be aware that relative literary excellence in a greeting card often goes hand in hand with a particularly sordid family dynamic. Every so often some of you will come across a card written entirely in rhymed couplets, or structured around an elaborate acrostic phrase like "SEASONS GREETINGS." If you see an acrostic like this, know that it likely should have been something closer to "WE’VE FILED FOR DIVORCE...
...Society who welcomed the audience to the event, every participant in the evening was a man: the moderator, every candidate, and every student group representative chosen to question the campus politicians. Although each man was tactful and respectful—and the debate itself was by no means an overt display of sexism—one can’t help but notice that the lack of women taking part in the UC presidential election this year is a serious elephant in the room...
...because they are blatantly discouraged from doing so by their male counterparts, but because they would just rather not involve themselves in the "sausage-fest of the year." This begs the question: Why don’t more women run for the UC? Overt sexism is on the decline in the Harvard community. Rarely will you encounter someone on campus who is outspoken and secure in his or her discrimination against women. However, certain aspects of Harvard’s culture are simply tinged against the expression of women’s strengths and power...