Word: overtness
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...time she brought on the President, the storm had eased, and he was warmly welcomed by most of the roughly 1,000 people in the crowd. Several people in attendance sat there grim-faced, arms folded, while others cheered Obama's lines. Most of the overt hostility remained outside and down the road, where the state highway joins with the airport road. There, anti-Obama demonstrators (made up mostly of two groups - Patients Rights and Tea Party Patriots) were gathered with signs, right next to a pro-reform group, Montanans for Single Payer (many of whom are unhappy with...
...unquestioned leader of the global economy, is now in the midst of a disorienting shift in economic policy, away from the let-it-rip form of capitalism that has guided it for almost 30 years and toward more overt government control and regulation of huge swaths of the economy. No one yet can safely say whether this is wise, but in the U.S. it is certainly the stuff of increasingly fierce debate. No such doubts are evident in China, where the government reacted to the crisis with alacrity and the economy is now responding in kind...
...clear from the indictment that the overt acts in the conspiracy were escalating." - U.S. Attorney George E.B. Holding, accusing Boyd of practicing military tactics with his sons and other recruits on private property near Raleigh over the past two months (USA Today, July...
...picnickers in the Quad were the victims of racial prejudice, just as every black student who has ever been asked to show ID to prove that he belongs in Harvard Yard has been the victim of racial prejudice. But the prejudice involved in these cases is subtle rather than overt...
...money is made, who is running rule of law, who do they go to when they have dispute adjudication - do they go to a Taliban shadow court, a government of Afghanistan official entity? So you try to look at a whole range of things. There are some overt indicators, close of traffic, commerce, people's ability to interact. Then there are many more that are subtle - you have to get at the attitudes of the people. And that is why I say you have to immerse yourself in it and understand it before you can confidently assess it. (See pictures...