Word: explicitness
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...country. Many argue that abstinence (and the active teaching of its tenets) is the only safeguard against the scourge of STDs. As this study has demonstrated, however, there appears to be some confusion as to what actual abstinence requires. Sexual health educators argue that withholding information - even if its explicit nature makes us squirm - from teenagers is tantamount to granting them permission to engage in everything but actual intercourse, without understanding the potential consequences...
...Major goals like this one are not achieved quickly," he writes in an e-mail message. "Explicit plans are not yet in place...
...problem with [arguments against affirmative action] is there's still explicit discrimination against minorities," Bianco said. "Race discrimination is still prevalent...
First came vague threats. "Do not become involved in campus politics to your detriment," one professor warned in her written comments on my paper, the warning as prominent as the grade. Then the threats became explicit. If my colleagues and I didn't stop our union drive for graduate-student teachers, one professor informed me, jabbing her finger at me furiously, she would ensure that none of us ever taught. Some of my fellow graduate students received more than threats; the dean's letter of recommendation for a woman applying for professorships explained that her union activity made...
Sage repeatedly encouraged audience members to protest the U.S. government's lack of explicit condemnation of slavery in the Sudan...