Word: tacit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Craxi joined the President in New York City for a 25- minute private talk. Said Reagan after the chat: "I'm sitting here with my very good friend." For Italians worried about the potential threat to Italo- American relations, it was a signal that Craxi had been given a tacit endorsement by the White House. Said one political observer: "The new Craxi government is a Reagan creation." Spadolini suddenly found himself isolated. The Defense Minister negotiated his price for remaining in the government: a foreign policy more closely aligned with NATO, a stronger antiterrorist stance and better coordination among...
...Tisch, whose Fifth Avenue office is around the corner from Black Rock, as CBS's Manhattan headquarters is called: "Tom came up to see me about some of his problems with Turner and Helms." A Loews takeover of CBS was not specifically discussed, but the two men reached a tacit understanding. Says Tisch: "CBS knew that if it needed somebody, Loews would be glad to discuss a deal." In July, Tisch started buying CBS stock...
...government agents closed the magazine's office and seized its printing equipment. Apparently the publication offended the Sandinistas because it carried a letter from Cardinal Obando y Bravo defending the right of seminary students to adopt conscientious objector status. In September the Sandinista army drafted eleven seminarians despite a tacit understanding that men in training for the priesthood could be exempted from the draft...
...already against Harvard rules to cheat; students know from the day they enroll here that they have signed a tacit contract not to break the rules. An honor code is not necessary to remind students that they're not supposed to let their eyes wander onto their neighbors' bluebooks...
...could even infer that Harvard disagreed with the implementation of the old drinking age. Upperclassmen can remember the winks of proctors as they read you the rules and handed you a cold one. Before this year, no one could remember getting carded at a campus-wide party. Harvard's tacit disapproval of the drinking age has shaped campus social life and spawned the breed of social animal that needs alcohol to party. If Harvard wanted to enforce the drinking age, they should have been doing so all along. If Harvard wants to enforce the drinking age now, they should ease...