Word: tacit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scheduled what was supposed to be the commission's final meeting for last Friday, but postponed it while he continued to negotiate with White House Chief of Staff James Baker. If Greenspan can get the Administration's imprimatur, and if O'Neill gives some kind of tacit nod, the panel can quickly reassemble and fashion a consensus plan...
...with the Brattle Square Nativity display in keeping with the Rhode Island ruling and the blunt First Amendment stipulation prohibiting government activity "respecting an establishment of religion." Designed to prevent Congress or municipalities from advocating a particular spiritual belief, that passage clearly requires a city to refrain from even tacit endorsement of the Christian faith...
...SALT II treaty limiting Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) defenses. That pact, which is of indefinite duration and is currently undergoing its ten-year review in Geneva, is the only strategic nuclear arms accord still formally in force between the superpowers. Its collapse, combined with the erosion of the tacit, increasingly fragile regulation of offensive weapons that now exists, would very likely mark the end of arms control and the beginning of a new round in the arms race. This might be characterized by a double helix of two intertwined vicious spirals, one in offensive and the other in defensive weapons...
...promise to reduce arms sales to Taiwan was linked to China's commitment to peaceful resolution of the island's future. The Chinese Communist Party daily Renmin Ribao attacked the President for "completely violating" the spirit of the communiqué. The Chinese want to leave the linkage tacit. Reagan's sin, in their eyes, was to refer to it explicitly...
...Charles, portraying the administration as removed but not unsympathetic to minorities in particular. "Some tensions" over race matters seems to be on target. For example, many Blacks' remain resentful over the decision not to form a separate third world center, and some Black varsity athletes have complained recently about tacit racism on the part of several coaches...