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Word: unspoken (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...people sharing a double split the cost? What if one wants the service and the other does not? What if one cannot afford it? Hiring someone to clean dorm rooms is a convenience, but it is also an obvious display of wealth that would establish a perceived, if unspoken, barrier between students of different economic means...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: Maid for Harvard? | 3/10/2005 | See Source »

More revealingly, only five percent of women say they want to return to their previous employers. Twenty-one percent of women felt “there is an unspoken rule at my workplace that people who use [flexible-time] options will not be promoted,” the study said...

Author: By Natalie I. Sherman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Study: Time Off Sets Women Back | 3/7/2005 | See Source »

...explanation for the divergence is that a much higher proportion of child cancer patients take part in clinical trials. "In child cancer medicine, trials have been the bedrock on which cure rates have gone up," says Marshall, adding that adolescents haven't had the same access to trials. The unspoken conclusion is that many young people have died needlessly as a result...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cancer Kids' Catch-17 | 11/23/2004 | See Source »

...select few opera pieces. Perhaps the best thing about karaoke at Uno’s—besides its accessibility for the oh-so-lazy—is that it is essentially free. There’s no cover charge and no minimum bill, just the unspoken rule that to sing, you must eat something. So, close your books, put on your diva jacket, head over to Uno’s and become a superstar...

Author: By Aria S.K. Laskin and Rebecca M. Myerson, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: You’ve Lost That Lovin' Feeling | 11/12/2004 | See Source »

...chapters go, each walk in a different place, with emphasis placed on the weather, the changes of season, encounters with animals and brief, mostly silent exchanges with people. One sequence has the man engage in an unspoken race with a fellow perambulator; in another he climbs a small-scale Mt. Fuji replica. With few words spoken you must piece together the "story," such as it is, almost entirely from the visuals. In its emphasis on quiet, low-key activities and cutaways to environmental details, "The Walking Man" evokes the atmosphere of the films of Yasujiro Ozu ("Tokyo Story," "Early Spring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Manga Mon Amour | 11/11/2004 | See Source »

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