Word: overtness
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...incumbency their boss enjoys. "They're already there," concedes an aide. So this week the Bush campaign will boost its ranks of surrogate campaigners and begin buying time for political ads that advisers say will accentuate his record and start out positive. On Monday, Bush makes his most overt political pitch yet of the 2004 campaign in a speech to Republican Governors. "It will be unmistakable," says a top adviser. "We're hitting the accelerator." Though the President doesn't plan to mention his competition by name, aides say, he will start drawing clear distinctions between what his advisers call...
...title, that this was about friends meeting friends, and no one was in the slightest bit desperate and dateless—they were all just looking for “activity partners,” as Friendster’s code engineers let us say in place of any overt indicator of romantic interest. This clever masquerade allowed Friendster to go where no online matchmaking service had gone before, thrusting the previously-reclusive personal ad into the open where it could bask in the sun as the wired generation logged on in unprecedented numbers...
...much has changed? Today the overt signs of Binori's notorious radicalism are gone. You no longer find posters asking for donations to the families of "martyrs" killed fighting American "infidels" in Afghanistan. Sermons nowadays steer clear of politics. "We were warned by the Pakistani police not to say anything bad about Bush or the Americans," says Qari Mohammed Iqbal, one of the mosque's administrators. "So now we don't." Secret police are regularly planted among the worshippers to ensure that the preachers obey...
...This made me think this was not going to be fair,” Okhotin said afterwards, adding that the judge seemed to display “overt hostility” towards his cause early in the trial...
Meanwhile, says Okhotin, officials continued to angle for payoffs. A defense lawyer recommended by the prosecutor in early April made yet another overt appeal for a bribe—this time for $15,000, a sum which the lawyer soon reduced to $10,000—in exchange for a dismissed case or reduced penalties, he says...