Word: explicitness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...wife had inoperable cancer. (Now we know a third thing about Edwards, which illustrates the peril of drawing too many conclusions from a candidate's life story as framed by the candidate and his or her campaign.) And, of course, there was Hillary Clinton. She never made an explicit issue of her personal troubles. She didn't have to, since we lived through them with her. Her role as the nation's officially wronged wife (who started out dissing Tammy Wynette and ended up standing by her man) was the basis of her political career...
...psyche that finally unlocked the story for Bourne. His Dorian would be a contemporary young man - the It Boy - who is discovered by a media power broker and transformed into a cultural icon, shedding his humanity along the way. The homosexuality hinted at in the novel would be explicit, and it would be fading billboards, not a painting in the attic, that would serve as a metaphor for the damage to Dorian's soul...
...using the word ''affordable,'' but he seemed to fudge by insisting that the question was not merely economic. ''You also have to consider the military situation and what the danger is that the nation faces.'' Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, in an interview with TIME last week, was more explicit in challenging Nitze's standard. ''I think the technical definition of cost- effectiveness, somebody trying to define what the margin means, is not very useful,'' he declared. ''We can afford to do what we have to do. My own feeling is that we should...
...latest Soviet offer in Geneva may force Reagan to resolve these disputes over the nature of SDI and its role in arms control. At a special session of the two delegations, Chief Soviet Negotiator Viktor Karpov presented proposals that made an explicit connection between reducing offensive weapons and limiting strategic defense programs. The plan amplifies an informal one the Soviets made last month that sought to set limits on America's SDI program through maintaining continued adherence to the ABM treaty. In making their offer, the Soviets have done precisely what U.S. officials have been wanting them...
...SALT? Reagan was asked at his press conference. "We've got several months before we reach that point," Reagan answered, adding that he was waiting to see what the Soviets did on arms control. He and his advisers spent the next day trying to clarify his less than explicit remarks. "The SALT treaty no longer exists," said Speakes brusquely. Said a Soviet spokesman at a news conference in Washington: "Actual abandonment and withdrawal from the treaty will affect the entire situation in a most seriously negative...