Word: tacit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some relaxation of standards appears to be taking place, partly in response to competition from cable, where explicit material is commonplace. "The networks have seen their share of the audience erode, and I think there is a tacit approval to go a little further," says Robert Singer, an executive producer of the new NBC series Midnight Caller. Network viewers today can see a sliver more nudity than they once could (though only from the rear), hear a few more dirty words (though usually later in the evening), and see bullets actually hitting bodies -- all scenes that once were forbidden...
...tacit acceptance of Israel's existence by most of the Arab countries has made a diplomatic settlement more conceivable...
Northrop is under attack on several fronts. The Air Force is complaining about shoddy workmanship in the Los Angeles company's Tacit Rainbow anti-enemy radar missile project, and the entire system, which could be worth an estimated $3 billion to the company, seems vulnerable to being cut from the Pentagon budget. Former Northrop employees charge the company with filing at least $400 million in questionable expense claims in connection with the development of its MX missile-guidance system. In addition, the Government is looking into allegations that the company bribed South Korean officials in the hope of boosting overseas...
Accompanied by Wife Raisa, Gorbachev boarded his Tu-154 jet for two carefully chosen side trips. The first was to Cracow, a seat of Polish kings beginning in the 10th century and symbol of the country's fiercely independent national identity. There Gorbachev offered a tacit gesture to the enduring power of the Roman Catholic Church, to which more than 90% of Poles belong. He and Raisa paid a 15-minute visit to the Church of St. Mary, touring its celebrated Gothic interior as guests of Auxiliary Bishop Jan Szkoden. The visit, said Bishop Szkoden, "seems to show...
...presidential election put the defeated conservatives in disarray. The center-right Union for French Democracy (U.D.F.), which supported former Premier Raymond Barre in the first round of voting in April, found itself torn by new rivalries for the leadership and cowed by the tacit threat of a parliamentary election. Consequently, the U.D.F. was wrangling over what position it should take toward the new government. Outgoing Culture Minister Francois Leotard flatly criticized it, though he refrained from recommending a censure vote. Former President Valery Giscard d'Estaing spoke benignly of a "constructive opposition." Outgoing Transport Minister Pierre Mehaignerie and former European...