Word: overtness
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...victims were carrying out the banal tasks of everyday life, their last unremarkable moments juxtaposed with the killer's lightning brutality. Officials speculated thatthis could be a terrorist attack but searched in vain for any overt political message. The victims, if they were lined up side by side, would roughly resemble a random sampling of the Washington metropolitan area. They were white, black, Hispanic, Indian, male, female. There was a government analyst, a landscaper, a housekeeper, a nanny...
...damned well better be ready for war, because we've been at war since September 2001. This war is different from any we have fought before, and the politically correct will never like it. It has overt and covert operations, some of which will be pre-emptive. Soldiers will die, some by enemy fire and some by friendly fire. Innocent civilians will be killed. This war will be long, and we had better keep the resolve that we will need to see it through. It's not nice, but it is necessary. DAVID C. MORTENSEN Pocatello, Idaho...
...There's not overt tension," Bencowitz says of the relationship between HTAG and HRDC. "We have separate spheres in terms of producing...
...chance encounter with Spitzer in early September, however, Weill has made it clear that he has resolved to clean up his shop. In a recent internal memo, he apologized to employees, saying that "certain of our activities do not reflect the way business should be done," and in an overt nod to regulators seeking concrete change, Weill replaced Salomon's chief, Michael Carpenter, with Prince. If Prince, 52, hopes to succeed Weill one day, insiders say, he probably has just two or three months to clear up Salomon's troubles before they start to look like his own. Last week...
...Canadian David Collier boldly finds a parallel between himself and an Islamic fundamentalist. More abstract work keeps the book from being too didactic. Tobias Schalken, half of the experimental "Eiland" duo, contributes a story whose images complement each other when holding the page up to a bright light. The overt theme of "Rosetta" may a bit vague - the word appears in several entries, particularly as the name of a diner - but the covert theme, outstanding comix, can't be missed...