Word: unspoken
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...yawned as Blair used the occasion to shift Britain's Iraq strategy, announcing a planned reduction in troop levels by 1,500 over the coming months from some 7,100 at present, with the aim of pushing overall numbers below 5,000 by the end of the year. Answering unspoken accusations that this signaled a rift with Washington, Blair averred that these moves would be in tune with the new-minted policy of the Bush Administration and were "informed by Baker-Hamilton." The situation in southern Iraq "has never presented anything like the challenge of Baghdad" and had now reached...
...party or five-year prep school reunion. His outfits combine traditional preppy with a kick, featuring bright red accents, creative color blocking, and enough cable knit to outfit the entire Harvard freshman class.1: 45 p.m.The Lemonheads’ “Mrs. Robinson” plays overhead, breaking the unspoken Fashion Week rule that all runway music must be foreign and violently bass-heavy. Unfortunately, Fabio has chosen a new seating buddy. We stand in the back, watching the Perry Ellis models swagger down the runway.Jay McCarroll, winner of the first season of “Project Runway...
...decades, paying bribes was an unspoken but largely inevitable cost of doing international business. The World Bank Institute, the bank's in-house think tank, estimates that more than $1 trillion is paid in bribes each year, lining the pockets of officials at the expense of economies, distorting competition and giving business a bad name the world over. The U.S. tried to outlaw the habit with its Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, which makes it unlawful for any American firm to make a corrupt payment to a foreign official. But that was long the exception; many other rich countries...
...Watergate had on Richard Nixon's. That was a matter of great concern to both friends and foes, but particularly to U.S. allies. "There is a basic given within the NATO alliance," said a French official. "This is that we rely on the solidity of the American regime." His unspoken point was that, temporarily at least, this basic stability has come into question...
Bush has come down on the side of pursuing a two-state framework now. To White House visitors he has provided his own savvy analysis of Olmert's precarious political situation and how both Olmert and Abbas need a breakthrough. Left unspoken is that Bush could use one as well. That is why he is sending Rice to make such an effort...