Word: tacit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...credit by raising the "prime rate"-the interest charged on loans to the bank's biggest and most reliable customers-from 5% to 5½%, highest level since the formula was introduced in the 1930s. Virtually every major bank in the U.S. followed suit, with Washington's tacit approval, further bruising the battered stock market (see U.S. BUSINESS...
...acting prematurely, the Corporation has not only involved itself in an unnecessary law suit, but has also given tacit approval to an oath many of its Faculty find reprehensible. Members of the Faculty have refused to sign the oath before, but have always capitulated when the Corporation suggested they were endangering their positions. Few Faculty members, especially junior faculty who feel hostile toward the oath, can afford to put their jobs on the line when the threat to academic freedom is unspecified and the President and Fellows offer them little support...
Even if A.I.D. is "adultery," the plaintiff husband in a divorce suit is still in trouble. If he consented, his wife may claim "condonation" (his tacit forgiveness), which usually bars divorce. If he did not consent, he may still be unable to prove that A.I.D. ever took place: he does not know the donor, his wife has a right to silence, and the doctor may not be allowed to testify if she objects. As a result, the husband faces the difficult job of proving that he actually was sterile nine months before the birth of his wife's child...
...likelihood the NCAA's policymakers will accept the Ivy standards as tacit compliance. Despite initial heated exchanges between Ivy and NCAA officials last month, prospects now look bright for a settlement allowing Ivy teams to remain within the NCAA framework...
...such issues as decolonization, racial discrimination and economic development. On the major issues of war and peace, they will leave the decisions to the big powers. The only role the U.N. took in war and peace this year was over India and Pakistan, and there it was a tacit agreement between Russia and the West that cut off arms and supplies to the combatants and thus quelled the fighting...