Word: tacitly
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Still, Romney's success here is a tacit repudiation of the candidate that ran in Iowa and New Hampshire, and could spur the same doubts about him that have dogged his campaign since it began. After all, if he finally won in Michigan because he was being real, then he wasn't being real before, right? And if he's not carefully tailoring his messages any longer, why was his campaign so beautifully suited to the state of Michigan? "His detractors say he ran for the governor of Michigan," says Neil Newhouse, Romney's pollster from his Massachusetts races...
...TIME correspondents is that I often enough fail to see Russian matters eye-to-eye with my friends and colleagues at the magazine. Not that I always prove right. Still, I believe I'm right about this: Putin's formal emergence as the only viable national leader, and his tacit acceptance of the role, mark for Russia a point of no return in its slide into a new authoritarianism, the shape and nature of which cannot yet be fully defined. I'm sure that the period of Putin's rule - which I predict will be long - will once again...
...says she has found financial aid officers, administrators, and professor to be accommodating and compassionate toward her situation, though she says when they find out that she has a child, “there’s this sort of tacit sense of surprise, though they’re supportive...
...approval for abortion that one new coalition of anti-abortion groups took out full-page ads in national newspapers criticizing evangelical leader James Dobson after he applauded the Supreme Court's decision to uphold the ban on partial birth abortions. In their eyes, Dobson, who opposes abortion, had given tacit approval to the "regulated killing of the unborn" by giving the nod to a court decision that recognizes the legality of the procedure in general even as it sets limits to it. And this week in Washington, the same coalition, with representatives from 12 states, plans to announce...
...Pilbeam, however, was not impressed by the changes. Citing a national increase in binge drinking among college students and the stricter position courts now take toward even the tacit condoning of illegal behavior, Pilbeam argues that administrators, deans, House masters, and party hosts “have to be able to demonstrate if something goes appallingly wrong, we all have taken reasonable steps. I had absolutely no choice...