Word: tacit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Constitution is more than literature, but as literature, it is primarily a work of the imagination. It imagined a country: fantastic. More fantastic still, it imagined a country full of people imagining themselves. Within the exacting articles and stipulations there was not only room to fly but also the tacit encouragement to fly, even the instructions to fly, traced delicately within the solid triangular concoction of the framers. Even 200 years after the fact, when people debate whether the Constitution is fit for so complicated and demanding a time, Americans take as granted the right to grow into themselves. They...
...most compelling relationship unfolds between Zanny and her adopted sister Dolly, who witnesses the first killing, of their younger brother. Dolly keeps her guard up but never raises a fuss: she wants Zanny's parents to continue paying for her education and shrewdly assesses them as candidates for tacit blackmail. Gill, a former elementary school teacher, has a keen understanding of how children's minds work and of the egocentric way they view the world...
...matter how elitist, racist or ideologically unacceptable final clubs are, no one is forced to join one simply by attending Harvard. On the other hand, attending Harvard means paying tuition, and that means supporting the endowment and Harvard's investment stance. That there is no avoiding placing this tacit imprimatur on the investment policy is what motives those who oppose this policy to try to change it. One can passively oppose final clubs by not belonging; there is no way to passively oppose investment policy...
Divestment activists say the University's"hostile" attitude toward the anti-apartheid slaterepresents a Tacit acknowledgement that politicsare playing an increasingly large role in theBoard's composition: welcome...
...treaty with Iran could be invoked to justify such an intervention on the grounds that chaos in Iran endangers Soviet security. If the 1979 Afghanistan scenario unfolds in Iran, the U.S. will be compelled to act in order to "cut its losses." It may be done through a tacit partition of Iran so that the Soviets could not reach the Persian Gulf and the Indian Ocean...