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...this is so far from being news that Rooney talked in the interview of an age-old understanding, "a tacit agreement among doctors" to do just that. And he asked Dr. Kevorkian, "Have you ruined that for them?" To which the doctor answered with stunning and quite startling humility: "I don't think so, but I might have...
...have already sullied the crown and could even bring it down? Some well-reasoned arguments are suggested here. Elizabeth married the handsome, hot-tempered Prince Philip for love at 20. It wasn't easy for him to walk two steps behind his wife, and Elizabeth hit on a tacit compromise: she would run the monarchy, he would run the family. Elizabeth, pursuing endless duty, was often absent for months at a time, and her children were brought up by nannies with strong wills and limited imaginations. Philip, worried about the sensitive Charles, sent him off for toughening...
There is also a certain blocking etiquette that must be followed. Although its rules are tacit, they are common knowledge and part of the accepted procedure. There are three basic components of blocking etiquette, or Blocking Commandments, if you will...
These black student leaders are not alone in condemning the memorial; the student body as a whole appears to be evenly divided on the subject. And one of the major issues that seems to shape student opinion is a belief as to whether the memorial is a tacit endorsement of the Confederacy's war aims...
Even when she gives congressional budgeting a brief tongue-lashing for the NEA's funding predicament, Wendy demurs rather than presenting herself as an authority. She lowers her voice as if to acknowledge a tacit understanding of what she is about to say. "You know what theater politics are like," she pines, leaning toward the front row, "so rather than blame the Newts of this world I look internally and ask what the liberals did wrong." She knows she's preaching to the converted and can get away with criticizing her own kind...