Word: tacit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...much of the killing is the work of government security units, which are waging an all-out campaign to crush the small but hard-hitting leftist guerrilla movement. In addition, right-wing paramilitary groups, like the Secret Anti-Communist Army (E.S.A.), appear to do their murderous work with the tacit cooperation of the authorities and are responsible for another large portion of the civilian deaths. Such ruthless tactics on all sides have nearly destroyed the moderate political center...
...clearest example of its Rooseveltian approach to trust-busting, the government decided to drop its nine-year effort to break up the three great ready-to-eat breakfast cereal manufacturers, who together control 80 percent of the market. The Federal Trade Commission had argued that there had been a "tacit understanding" between the three firms to keep prices up, but the government had been unable to prove the cereal companies had gained illegal profits, and the case remained soggy. In refraining from prosecuting successful corporations simply because they are successful--and large--the Reagan Administration has correctly decided to allow...
Rolling Stone's two-stepping toward general interest is a tacit editorial admission that rock music is no longer taken as the unifying force of a generation. The eager reception of Albert Goldman's lowlife Presley biography (150,000 sold) is an indication that there is an audience that wants, even needs, to have the rock spirit despoiled. That spirit can find nothing new to focus on, never mind to rally around. Social issues have always been slightly suspect in rock. But the upheavals of the 1960s, like Viet Nam and civil rights, redirected and rejustified rock...
...cereal case was also a landmark setback for the Government's novel antitrust theory that a group of companies can "share" a monopoly. The FTC's staff had charged that the three firms had a "tacit understanding" that kept cereal prices high and stopped competitors from entering the business. If the cereal makers had lost their case, the shared monopoly doctrine might have been used against autos, aluminum and other industries dominated by a few firms...
...wily Hoover, Ehrlichman writes, regaled Nixon and Mitchell during a dinner at the FBI director's home with anecdotes about "bag jobs" in which his agents entered private homes and offices without warrants. When his guests did not protest, Ehrlichman surmises, Hoover felt he had tacit approval to continue the illegal acts...