Word: unclearly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...imitators who threaten to glut even a market that sometimes seems insatiable. On the other hand there is the sudden appearance of a new and stricter legal definition of obscenity by the U.S. Supreme Court (TIME, July 2). Though the boundaries of the court's ruling are still unclear, they could well halt the skin trade's race to publish ever more explicit turn-ons. If forced to retreat, the magazines might simply succeed in boring their audience...
...months later, however, the administrators discovered that current and incoming students qualified collectively for almost half a million dollars more aid than Kraus had estimated. Graduate students at Harvard would actually fare more favorably than their counterparts at Yale and Berkeley. (It was still unclear whether the first-choice applicants had found Harvard's offers uniformly more attractive than others). All their earlier statements notwithstanding administrators would have to find the extra funds which they maintained were unavailable: the highly touted Kraus plan still created a deficit in the Faculty's 1973-74 budget...
Just why Kissinger did allow it remains unclear. He himself has said that he regrets the whole episode, but that he was told that it was the usual prac tice followed in previous Administra tions. Some observers believe Kissinger was truly concerned about security and worried that leaks would damage delicate negotiations, though most agree that the disclosures in question concerned information that was a secret only to the American people, not to the Communists...
...Watergate investigation, he turned brusque. At first he dismissed the break-in at Democratic National Committee headquarters as a "third-rate burglary." He responded to some of the Washington Post's revelations by charging "character assassination" and "the shoddiest kind of journalism." Often his answers seemed deliberately unclear or misleading...
...point of view is so seductive--so right, that it's hard to notice. It should by rights be simple to tell when Dr. Thompson is jettisoning the truth, yet the fact is that his fantasies are close to ringing true, not so much because he is being irresponsibly unclear, but because the campaign, and the world at large, approach his level of craziness to an alarming degree. It's a cliche to say that we don't know what to believe anymore...