Word: unspoken
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...York City shelter, for example, costs on average $1,800 a month). It's similar to the problem faced by hospitals, where the uninsured use ambulances and emergency rooms as a very expensive version of primary care. Culhane's finding is also attractive in its simple if unspoken logic: because the mentally ill were put out into the street after the public discovered the abuses in mental hospitals and J.F.K. passed the 1963 Community Health Center Act, which deinstitutionalized 430,000 people, the plan really amounts to building much nicer, voluntary mental hospitals...
Their names—Fadule, Traverso, Torinus, Bakken, Soriano and others—are much less familiar than those of well-publicized stars Carl Morris, Neil Rose, Dante Balestracci, Palazzo, and now even Tyler. But the offensive linemen are the silent warriors of the Harvard football team, the unspoken heroes of a championship squad that has now won 13 straight league games...
...debated with vigor and candor on all sides. Afterwards, if we are convinced that a new Iraqi war’s results would not end up in the plus column for life and liberty—or, more chillingly, if we believe that Bush’s unspoken motives for invasion would distort his perceptions to the point that any positive results would be undone—then we should oppose war in Iraq wholeheartedly. But the time has come to leave behind this inordinate attention to the president’s motive and psychological state. For all I care...
...game concludes with two lonely Z’s remaining and Daniels victorious. In a successful, cutthroat game of anagrams, no words go unformed—or unspoken...
While there are no rules ordaining the divvying up of friends after a split, in many cases it works like an unspoken prenuptial agreement. That is, you take those friends you brought to the marriage with you when you go. You also take the friends you use more often--the ones you work with or, if you're the custodial parent, the friends with kids. Often a sort of morality clause kicks in. People feel they should side with the spouse they perceive to have been wronged. The adulterer has a new love; the betrayed spouse gets the old friends...