Word: tacitly
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Trust the approach of a presidential election to concentrate politicians' minds on the gravest threats facing the nation. After many months of bitter wrangling, for example, Congress and the Reagan Administration have at last reached a tacit understanding about what they will do between now and November 1984 to reduce those gargantuan $200 billion budget deficits. In a word, nothing...
Sculley, though, is trying to make the Lisa more attractive to business buyers. Next year it will be able to run programs designed for the IBM PC. Such a move would have been anathema a year ago and is tacit admission that Apple is learning to live in an IBM-dominated world...
...spoke out. Although the Reagan Administration has long given tacit support to the Chilean regime for its anti-Communist stance, some U.S. officials now fear that Pinochet's failure to promote democracy could plunge the country into civil war. The State Department specifically condemned the arrest of three prominent opposition leaders as "a regrettable manifestation of the serious tensions and divisions" in Chile, and called for "moderation and dialogue" leading to the restoration of democracy...
...Europe. In Sakharov's view, the firing of a single nuclear weapon of any size anywhere would be all too likely to lead to all-out war. He urges a big Western buildup in conventional arms to offset present Soviet superiority and end the West's tacit dependence on nuclear weapons to close the conventional gap, while gloomily questioning: "Will the West's politicians be able to carry out such a restructuring...
...Israeli Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir, who described the quarreling within the P.L.O. as "good for Israel" and indeed a positive result of Israel's costly war in Lebanon. His reasoning presumably is that any step toward further radicalization of the P.L.O. would prevent the U.S. from giving tacit support to P.L.O. moderates and make more difficult the kind of negotiated settlement on the West Bank and Gaza that Israel opposes...