Word: tacitly
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...tacit understanding between Israel and Syria has gone so far that Damascus has withdrawn most of its offensive military power from the Golan Heights. Last year the Syrians had five armored divisions standing between Damascus and the Israeli-occupied territory on the Heights. Gradually, those forces were shifted, either to Lebanon or to Syria's troubled border with Iraq...
...Lockheed intended to pay $43,000 in bribes to current Premier Giulio Andreotti. The immediate public and press response was suspicion that right-wingers had planted forged documents in an effort to break up Andreotti's fragile, five-week-old Christian Democratic minority government, which relies heavily on tacit Communist support. Carl Kotchian and Dale H. Daniels, the Lockheed officials who were supposed to have written two of the documents published by L'Espresso, denied any knowledge of them last week. The U.S. Senate subcommittee reportedly had received no testimony on Andreotti, who dismissed the charges as "pure...
...Gauld's humiliation and paddling "philosophy" is just child abuse, with or without the parents' "tacit consent." The Hyde School and Mr. Gauld prescribe punishment and embarrassment for troubled children. What they need is love and encouragement...
...such mundane problems as what to do about stray flocks of sheep. But Israel's underlying message is clear. As long as Khatib's men do not help P.L.O. terrorists return to the border, the Lebanese troops will be safe from Israeli attack. With Khatib's tacit permission, Israeli combat teams now patrol as deeply as three miles inside Lebanon, searching both for Syrian units and terrorists. They are also there to prevent fedayeen retaliation against border villagers, who in recent months have turned more and more to Israel for assistance...
...boarding school is almost as rigorous as that of a Marine boot camp. Many of the students are troubled, and short-tempered Gauld treats them like a drill instructor faced with a platoon of left-footed recruits. He occasionally slaps and routinely humiliates the kids-with their parents' tacit consent-in a no-holds-barred effort to toughen them up and build their characters. "The rod is only wrong in the wrong hands," Gauld likes to say. When he finds that a student has what he considers a "bad attitude," Gauld may order him to wear a sign saying...