Word: tacit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tacit acceptance of CIA-induced counterrevolution as an acceptable means of foreign policy points to a tragic and misguided immorality. It also represents a glaring inattention to history, by echoing the sentiments of the many Americans who believe that the only problem with the Bay of Pigs incident in 1961 was that it didn't work...
...plan already passed by the House. It would reduce the projected 1984 deficit to $162 billion by trimming the real increase in defense spending to 5% and raising $30 billion in new tax revenues. Faced with this prospect, Reagan reluctantly relented two weeks ago and gave his tacit support to a compromise fashioned by Domenici and the Senate Republican leadership. It called for a 7.5% rise in defense spending...
...official calendar will attract more freshmen to their events, and they see the issue above all as a symbolic one. Listing the events, they argue, adds legitimacy to the activities. The events will take place anyway, so there is no logical reason for the College to deny this tacit endorsement for Third World and women's groups on campus. And the Freshman Dean's office should go one step further and restore the funding...
When Indonesian troops launched a full-scale invasion of East Timor--a small island north of Australia--in 1975, the Indonesians knew they could count on tacit United States support. They felt confident that not only would the U.S. play a role in suppressing discussion at the United Nations for this bistant breach of international law, but also continue its military aid to Indonesia. At the time, the stated purpose of the Indonesian invasion of this Portuguese colony was to "stabilize" it and prevent the allegedly leftist liberation front FRETILIN (a Portuguese acronym) from taking over power after the Portuguese...
Does this tacit support imply that the U.S. bears responsibility for the invasion which was carried out entirely by Indonesian troops? Could the U.S. government have stopped Indonesia? The position of the State Department and of the major American media is unambiguous: they deplore the admitted atrocities but claim that the U.S. could have done little to prevent the invasion. At best it would have alienated an importantally. To give only one example, James Fallow of The Atlantic Monthly argued...